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

[Basil Chupin]

On 22/07/11 00:01, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 21:12 +0100, Avi wrote:
>>> 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?
>> Because maybe there are trying to release with the Hyper V-code
>> feature working?
> It already works. It worked two years ago. This bug has nothing to do
> with that module at all. I've no idea why Basil brought it up.

Actually, "The Devil made me do it".

(It's so depressing when some people just aren't able to think outside 
their small square.... But such is life.)

BC

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