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Posted in GNU/Linux, Kernel, Microsoft, Novell, Ron Hovsepian, Steve Ballmer, Virtualisation at 6:12 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Novell discovers what it’s like to work with a ‘partner’ like Microsoft now that Novell employees are left to make Microsoft hooks work
Microsoft not only violated the GPL before releasing some kernel hooks for Microsoft’s proprietary software [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] (Microsoft sent out Ramji to spin it, but he's quitting the company now); it is also showing total lack of interest, if not just the expected indifference. Their semi-ally from Novell, Greg Kroah-Hartman, is now complaining publicly and Microsoft blogs are seeing this.
=> violated the GPL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | he's quitting the company now | ↺ now complaining publicly | ↺ seeing this
Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Novell fellow with SuSE Labs and Linux Driver Project lead, posted on September 9 a status update on the drivers being assembled for inclusion in the Linux 2.6.32 kernel, Kroah-Hartman had some harsh words about Microsoft’s participation since its original announcement of its GPL plans in late July.
This is already in Slashdot and in SD Times.
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Microsoft’s developers were missing in action after the company donated GPL-licensed drivers to the Linux kernel community in July, leaving significant work to the Linux community, according to Linux driver project lead and Novell fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman.
“Leaving significant work to the Linux community,” eh? Surely this “Linux community” (translation: Novell engineers) is anxious to get its hands on this code and make it working to increase sales of Microsoft products (Hyper-V), then put GNU/Linux under Windows, just as Ron Hovsepian agreed with Steve Ballmer and publicly confessed in early 2007. █
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