[OT] Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug

[Basil Chupin]

On 20/07/11 14:21, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 13:17 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>>> OMG! A BUG? IN LINUX?
>>> Nah...ya must be jokin mate...can't be ridgydigi...must be a joke...
>> When I read the story, the first thing which came to mind is this article:
>> http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/microsoft-struggles-get-hyper-v-drivers-in-linux-kernel-357
>>
>> Don't know why........
>>
>> BC
> Well, that truly does explain THAT bit. M$ being "not on time" with a
> project or with code. Yeppers. "Fashionably late", as it were. As well,
> with Microsoft depositing code into the linux kernel, the next step is
> to get the linux distributors to pay them $15 per copy sold - meaning
> that "free as in beer" linux could be a thing of the past - shortly.
> (Um, "Android Lessons" anyone?)


Strange that you should mention this.

A comment I made to someone elsewhere is that I can visualise this piece 
of M$ code being patented - but provided under the GPL (?)v2 licence. 
But then some time along M$ comes in with, "Ooopsie, one of our "rogue" 
programmers, the very very naughty boy that he was!, provided this code 
for the Linux kernel but.....well..... it IS patented you know.....and 
so......".

BC

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