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

[Avi]

Ernest Doub wrote:

> "Microsoft began contributing Hyper-V code to the Linux kernel two
> years ago after Linux community members pointed out that Microsoft
> was violating the GPL software
> license<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/23/microsoft_hyperv_gpl_violation/>by
> using open source components within a Hyper-V driver."
> 
> More likely, based on this quote, that they would have to dump their
> entire driver and start over again from scratch.
> Microsoft has finally been busted for using ideas/code developed by
> somebody else and claiming as their own proprietary work.

No. They would have to comply with the GPL. Which they did. Two years
ago. 

What has a bug in Linux 3.0 got to do with Microsoft anyway?

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Avi