Double-Take: Microsoft Contributes Drivers to Linux Community

[anon]

It all started with some free lunch four years ago, and then it morphed into a free patch. Along came Moonlight and some other developments, and now Microsoft has donated 20,000 lines of driver code to be included in the Linux tree. Yes-- Microsoft contributed drivers to the Linux community.

Okay, so there weren't a whole lot of drivers (only three), and they weren't ones most people would be interested in (there won't be better support for hardware such as sound cards or wireless chips because of them), but it's another interesting move from Microsoft nonetheless. The drivers were also released under the GPLv2 license.

Double-Take: Microsoft Contributes Drivers to Linux Community

Surprising move, isn't it?

[arnold]

when microsoft give somthing for free, hide before the hidden bills hit u

[SBfreak]

Hmm interesting move I say.I wonder what are they up to.

[anonftw]

Wow, I wonder where the profit comes in or if their is some kind of hidden agenda to steal code like in the movie Antitrust . This is toomuch of a respectable act for M$ .

[naughtydog]

Hahaha see everyone thinks microsoft is hiding something... The cause of staying behind "windows" i guess. IMO microsoft got some few bucks somewhere that is if this is not a prank both parties are pulling on customers.

[CS Curse]

M$ does charity?. I don't think so. They only care about money, bastards.

[anon]

Wow, I wonder where the profit comes in or if their is some kind of hidden agenda to steal code like in the movie Antitrust .

About stealing code, do any of you remember when the Windows NT 4 and 2000 source codes were leaked? A computing site checked it out and did a quick search for "BSD" and "Linux" - no results.

Personally I doubt MS is stealing code, it wouldn't speak well of them...