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Microsoft code in the Kernel tree?Microsoft code in the Kernel tree?Posted Jul 24, 2009 10:37 UTC (Fri) by NRArnot (subscriber, #3033)Parent article: In brief
A political comment.
Microsoft wants Linux to run under Hyper-V, but does the Linux community want that? Personally I'd like to see this code refused entry to the Linux kernel tree. My grounds would be that Microsoft's strategy has always been "extend, embrace, extinguish". We should not help them with the embrace. We should help end users run Microsoft O/Ses under Linux or other GPL'ed hypervisors, not help Microsoft put Linux somewhere that they can cause it harm. We want Linux (or other free software) to control the bare metal in the server farm, not Microsoft.
Anyone who REALLY wants linux under Hyper-V can always patch their kernel with MS's code.
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Microsoft code in the Kernel tree? Posted Jul 24, 2009 16:40 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
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Microsoft wants Linux to run under Hyper-V, but does the Linux community want that?
you can look at it that way (and many people do), or you can look at it from the point of view that if a company has a Hyper-V server with lots of virtual machines, making off-the-shelf linux distros be unable to run on that box is more likely to mean that linux based products don't get used by that company than it is to mean that the company goes out and buys vmware (another proprietary virtual server) to run a linux-based tool on.
from that second point of view, this allows us a foot in the door.
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