In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license.
The code consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called Linux Device Driver for Virtualization. The drivers, once added to the Linux kernel, will provide the hooks for any distribution of Linux to run on Windows Server 2008 and its Hyper-V hypervisor technology. Microsoft will provide ongoing maintenance of the code.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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akf
2 years 44 weeks 12 hours 51 min ago
A critical view
A critical view of this on groklaw:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090720134402246
(I tried several times to submit this as story, but it seems to be blocked.)
Balzac
2 years 44 weeks 4 hours 28 min ago
Microsoft can smell what the GNU is cooking.
Of course they're still trying to take advantage and preserve as much of their anti-FOSS ego as they can under the circumstances, but this can be seen as a "defeatist sigh" from Microsoft.
aboutblank
2 years 43 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago
This is a Linux issue
This is a Linux issue, not a GNU issue. I don't believe that the license of this modification has any concern to the GNU project. I say this for the sake of correctness: if we want people to use the GNU/Linux name for the sake of correctness, then we should also be strict in knowing where the GNU name applies.