Torvalds Gives Props to Microsoft for Sharing Feb 25, 2008, 18 :15 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (4805 reads) (Other stories by Stephen Shankland)
"Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project that's among the best-known open-source threats to Windows, has words of praise for Microsoft's announcement last week that it would share some previously hard-to-get technology with open-source programmers.
"'I may make fun of Microsoft occasionally, and yeah, I think they do stupid things at times, but I think this one was a step in the right direction,' Torvalds said in an e-mail..."