Today, Microsoft released 20,000 lines of source code to contribute to the Linux Kernel. The source code includes 3 device drivers for Linux, introduced to the Linux community to be included in the system development tree. The code was released under GPL v2.
I found this quite shocking and surprising at the same time, that is Micro$oft God of commercial software contributes to open source? Yet this may be a very clever act made by Microsoft trying to gain some respect from the Open Source and Linux fanatics, another possibility is that maybe they have finally started to open up to the open source community as until now that they understood it's importance. Third possibility is that they are just 3am bikhabso and trying to get some more fame or just trying the things they never did in their life before dying :rolleyes: :P :P
Anyways, what do you think of this guys? What is your opinion? Do you have any other possibilities to share?
For more information about this topic check out this video:
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NicFill/Microsoft-Contributes-Code-to-the-Linux-Kernel/ :cool: