Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code
Jul 20, 2009, 18:04 (7 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Mary Jo Foley)
"Microsoft made the Linux driver announcement on July 20, the
opening day of the O’Reilly OSCON open-source conference.
"(The driver news also comes a week after Microsoft Chief
Operating Officer Kevin Turner told Microsoft reseller partners
that Microsoft has competed really well against “the
fraudulent perception of free” that is at the core of many
Linux vendors’ sales pitches. Not all of Microsoft management
is onboard with this newfangled licensing world...)"
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