[LinuxUsers] Microsoft released GPL Linux driver code

[Dante Lanznaster]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:02 PM, David Kaiser<dkaiser at cdk.com> wrote:
> I can't believe nobody has posted this on here yet today!
>
> Microsoft released 20,000 lines of source code to the Linux kernel -
> released under the GPL.  Microsoft is going to maintain said code in the
> kernel.
>
> I am not making this up.
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-microsoft-linux-source-code.html
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3403
>

I saw this and posted on twitter... the code is for
their own benefit though, as it provides better
performance for linux machines running on Hyper-V
hypervisors... I kinda see this as a take on VMware
more than anything else.