Microsoft is Now Our Friend
This has been an amusing story for this week. In a nutshell, Microsoft got busted for a GPL violation. It took over two years, but finally MS came into compliance and then released the source code with much fanfare and self-congratulations. It is a driver to enhance Linux guest performance on their Hyper-V virtualizer. There is a lot of good news in this story, but not of the kind that Microsoft wants us to believe.
First of all, even though it took too long the matter was settled without litigation or loud headlines. Contrast this with Microsoft vs. TomTom or Redmond's continual patent saber-rattling and bleating about protecting their precious eye pee, and by gosh everyone better pay up. What is the penalty for violating the GPL? You don't get to use the code anymore. How do you fix this? Come into compliance. That's it. Simple. Too simple, apparently, for gigantic globalcorps who need two years to fix a small bit of code.
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Microsoft is Now Our Friend
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