Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register)

Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register)

Posted Apr 4, 2006 0:26 UTC (Tue) by aliguori (subscriber, #30636)
Parent article: Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register)

Don't read too much into the "Microsoft is working with Xen" developers stuff. Microsoft isn't working with the Xen community, they've only given XenSource a license to the VHD spec which anyone can get from them as long as they sign the license agreement. The license agreement is the classic Microsoft binary-only license which means that it cannot be used for Open Source software. XenSource will likely be using this to build a closed product to import virtual machines.

VMware, on the other hand, has opened their format up with no restrictions. Of course, none of this really matters as QEmu already implements both formats as they were reverse engineered a long time ago.

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