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7月28日 Linus Tovald on Microsoft’s contribution to LinuxMicrosoft recently contributed some 20k lines of code to Linux, so it can work better under Microsoft’s virtualization technologies (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Jul09/07-20LinuxQA.mspx). Not only that: the code is being released under a GPL license, something that Microsoft has been demonizing for years.
The move surprised not only the Microsoft camp but the Linux/Open Source camp as well (http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6567014545.html). Many in the Linux camp complained – of course - usually along the lines that the move was “selfish” or that it’s “too little”. This is one such comment: http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/07/21/how-microsoft-made-open-source-selfish/. Now no less a person than Linus Torvalds himself, the creator of Linux and its moral voice, said some interesting things in an interview to Linux magazine (http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html): “I’m a big believer in “technology over politics”. I don’t care who it comes from, as long as there are solid reasons for the code, and as long as we don’t have to worry about licensing etc issues. There are ‘extremists’ in the free software world, but that’s one major reason why I don’t call what I do ‘free software’ any more. I don’t want to be associated with the people for whom it’s about exclusion and hatred. I agree that it’s driven by selfish reasons, but that’s how all open source code gets written! We all “scratch our own itches”. It’s why I started Linux, it’s why I started git, and it’s why I am still involved. It’s the reason for everybody to end up in open source, to some degree.” So it seems that the “jihadists” at both sides are being put at bay and we will have an “ecosystem” where both proprietary and pen source software co-exists with less political colors. Maybe Bill Gates got this one wrong and IBM policy of “embracing and cashing in” was the right one all along. 评论 (1)
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