Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Jul 2009 22:53 UTC, submitted by Remy Chi Jian Suen
So, Microsoft submits 20000 lines of code to the Linux kernel, all licensed under the GPL. Microsoft, who considers Linux a great threat, and once called the GPL a "cancer". Opinions on this one are flying all around us, but what does Linus Torvalds, Linux' benevolent dictator, think about all this?
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2006-07-15
Well Linus doesn't care about Microsoft, but he does care about Sun since the beginning. Well it is his very own Sun-disease :-)
E.g. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/12/232