Re: Comments about Microsoft and the GPL

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With microsoft contributing to the kernel does this mean we may see a
unix based windows version. Personally I think windows should be unix
based as with mac OSX it will greatly increase stability and security.


On Tuesday, July 21, 2009, Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart gmail com> wrote:
> 2009/7/21 Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora nicubunu ro>:
>> On 07/21/2009 12:04 PM, Keiran Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> Well looks like us linux users can look forward to some of the
>>> instabilities of windows in our Own Operating Systems. What are
>>> microsoft thinking
>>
>> I don't think you will be affected by this code unless you run a virtualized
>> Linux guest on a Windows host and if you do that... well, probably you
>> already have bigger problems :p
> And that could be a problem for us, since the opposite (Windows on top
> of linux) isn't that equivalent.
> That's  because of the hardware coverrage isn't the same. (3D graphics
> / raid drivers / others).
>
> One could say, it will be easier for Linux to live on top of windows.
> That way drivers could remains closed sources and linux not a real OS
> anymore, just providing few services on top of the real OS.
>
> While the European Union is presuring to remove out IE from the next
> windows bundle, /me think it would have been more valuable to only
> keep the very basic hardware support layers from the OS, so everything
> else could have been optional.
>
> At least I can see one way to have the announcement turn into our
> favour. It would be to have it compared with other opensourcing
> announcement such the AMD/ATI one. Even if the reasons behind have
> nothing to be compared, it could present theses as a success story for
> the free software development scheme.
> That should have be directed to end-users asking them to keep
> presuring on hardware vendosr for free software solutions over
> proprietary ones.
>
> Nicolas (kwizart)
>
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