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____/ Jerry McBride on Monday 14 Sep 2009 02:49 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Sunday 13 Sep 2009 15:04 : \____
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>>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
>>> this bit o' wisdom:
>>>
>>>> Linux developer tells Microsoft to get back to work
>>>>
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>>>>| "Unfortunately the Microsoft developers seem to have disappeared, and no
>>>>| one is answering my emails. If they do not show back up to claim this
>>>>| driver soon, it will be removed in the 2.6.33 [kernel] release. So
>>>>| sad...," he wrote.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/kernel-
>> systems/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsid=16532
>>>
>>> After a kick in the pants from the leader of the Linux driver project,
>>> Microsoft has resumed work on its historic driver code submission to
>>> the Linux kernel and avoided having the code pulled from the open
>>> source operating system.
>>>
>>> . . .
>>>
>>> Kroah-Hartman said calling out specific projects on the mailing list is a
>>> technique he uses all the time to jump start those that are falling
>>> behind.
>>>
>>> In all, Kroah-Hartman specifically mentioned 25 driver projects that were
>>> not being actively developed and faced being dropped from the main kernel
>>> release 2.6.33, which is due in March. He said the driver project was not
>>> a "dumping ground for dead code."
>>>
>>> . . .
>>>
>>> On top of chiding Microsoft for not keeping up with code development,
>>> Kroah-Hartman took the company to task for the state of its original code
>>> submission.
>>>
>>> "Over 200 patches make up the massive cleanup effort needed to just get
>>> this code into a semi-sane kernel coding style (someone owes me a big
>>> bottle of rum for that work!)," he wrote.
>>>
>>> . . .
>>>
>>> Kroah-Hartman says he has seen this all before and seemed to chalk it up
>>> to the ebbs and flows of the development process.
>>
>> My personal interpretation is that Microsoft messed up by violating the GPL,
>> so the appeal of this SLES-only patch was gone... and so were Microsoft
>> develop~1 develop~1 develop~1.
>>
>
> Sounds about right. It's amazing a company with so many lawyers can't get the
> GPL right...
Well, they got _caught_.
It's like with OOXML...
They would not apologise for committing a crime... they'll apologise (regret)
for getting /caught/.
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~~ Best of wishes
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