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Linux slips into Microsoft's warm, deadly embrace
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| Embrace and extend: That has been Microsoft's competitive mantra for as long
| as I can remember. So it comes as no real surprise to me that the company
| would choose to release, via the GPL, device driver code that more closely
| integrates Linux into the Microsoft virtualization ecosystem. After all, it's
| not like Linux will be running the show in this relationship. Rather, it's
| making the FOSS (free open source software) community's fair-haired boy feel
| more comfortable as it settles into the warm, fatal embrace of Hyper-V that
| is the Redmond giant's ultimate goal.
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/windows/linux-slips-microsofts-warm-deadly-embrace-969
Microsoft donates code to Linux: Remember, folks, what comes after 'Embrace'
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| Microsoft wants Linux to run on Windows, in short. So remember what comes
| after the 'Embrace' part.
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| In case you had any doubt about the true motive, please note that the
| Microsoft announcement offers a link to video of Microsoft's Tom Hanrahan
| discussing the move with Sam Ramji. But to view it, you have to have or
| install Microsoft's proprietary Silverlight. There is no Microsoft
| Silverlight for Linux.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090720134402246
Microsoft and Novell, together again
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| Novell and Microsoft have long stated that virtualization is one of the goals
| they are working together on. Microsoft wants you to use Windows; but, if you
| must use Linux, at least run it on top of Windows. So, they are releasing
| this code to help make that happen.
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| Customers have told us that they would like to standardize on one
| virtualization platform, and the Linux device drivers will help customers
| who are running Linux to consolidate their Linux and Windows servers on a
| single virtualization platform.
|
| Nothing altruistic here – if one must use Linux (or Open Source in general),
| Microsoft certainly wants it running on Windows. Of course, you can’t have a
| truly Free system running on top of Windows; but in general corporations are
| not interested in Freedom (until they are stormed by the BSA), so they aren’t
| looking at things that way.
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| Why they used the GPL
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| Because they had no option. If they hope to get it close to the kernel, it
| must be GPL. It’s not like Microsoft chose
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/07/21/microsoft-and-novell-together-again/
Who would run Linux on Windows? It's insane.
Related:
"Linux more secure than Windows", Microsoft vulnerability report suggests
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| Red Hat, having forty times less employees than Microsoft, did the best job,
| by fixing and closing the most security bugs, also closing even minor bugs -
| where Microsoft didn't even fix one minor bug in the same period.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/91474/index.html
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