Microsoft napisao driver za Linux?!

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135683/Microsoft_stuns_Linux_world_submits_source_code_for_kernel

Microsoft napisao driver za bolju podršku  Linuxa na njihovov hyper-V virtualizaciji pod GPL v2 .  Steve Ballmer kaže da njima ne treba drugi operativni sustav. Već svi pričaju kako će MS kupiti Novell i napraviti MS Linux distribuciju. Izgleda da im ipak treba drugi OS.

..ali malo bolje kad čovjek razmisli, oni samo žele da Linux bolje radi pod windowsima.

wow!

Ali najvjerovatnije imaju jos neke dodatne skrivene namjere ^^

Jooooj...

Crazy Frog... Isto Jooooj...

Piši kući propalo je, kôd je odbijen.

Razlog zašto M$ želi bolju podršku linux guesta pod Hyper-Vom je skroz sebični - agresivan ulazak na tržište kojim je dosad vladao VMWare.

Kod je odbijen jer nepoštuje GPLv2 licencu.

... network driver in Microsoft's Hyper-V uses open source components licensed under the GPL. These components were statically linked to closed-source binaries, which the GPL does not allow....

http://www.osnews.com/story/21882/Microsoft_s_Linux_Kernel_Code_Drop_Result_of_GPL_Violation

MS i GPL :)))) -što onda  s FAT (FAT32) licencom?

i ja sam tako shvatio. netko je skužio da je MS koristio open source code u svojim vlasničkim driverima te da bi izbjegli tužbu, objavili su svoj driver pod GPLv2.  da mi je sad čuti šta stevo kaže o ovome. ovo će mu začepit usta neko vrijeme o žalopojkama kako linux koristi MS-ov vlasnički code. da je code odbijen, to nisam nigdje pročitao, ako netko zna više neka da link.

istina izgleda otprilike ovako:

The Linux Network Plumber was pleased to post his take on the origin of the problem and how the ball got rolling. And yes, he did “congratulate” Microsoft.

“Nice. Microsoft has released the Hyper-V drivers as GPLv2. I know was a hard step for Microsoft to take, since it means acknowledging GPL and respecting the Linux community. The releasing of the drivers is good news for users, developers, and in the end Microsoft as well. Like most GPL related actions, a lot of work was done behind the scenes to get the offending company into compliance,” he wrote in his blog yesterday.

“This saga started when one of the user’s on the Vyatta forum inquired about supporting Hyper-V network driver in the Vyatta kernel. A little googling found the necessary drivers, but on closer examination there was a problem. The driver had both open-source components which were under GPL, and statically linked to several binary parts. The GPL does not permit mixing of closed and open source parts, so this was an obvious violation of the license. Rather than creating noise, my goal was to resolve the problem, so I turned to Greg Kroah-Hartman,” he wrote. “Since Novell has a (too) close association with Microsoft, my expectation was that Greg could prod the right people to get the issue resolved.

“It took longer than expected, but finally Microsoft decided to do the right thing and release the drivers.”

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3433

Ako pogledaš nekoliko zadnjih članaka na tu tematiku koji su objavljeni na www.osnews.org, tam se govori o "code drop"-u.

E sad, dal se taj code drop dogodio kad je MS pokušao inicijalno uvaljati svoj driver (što je 99% slučaj), to je nije specificirano. Vjerujem da se više radi o šlamparaju od strane MSa, nedostatku vremena da se prouči GPL problematika/stignu rokovi ili slično, nego o pravoj namjeri da se krši GPL. Zanimljivo je da se prašina digla naknadno kad je sve već pofixano. Za to je više odgovorna Linux zajednica nego MS, i sam Linus T. je rekao par riječi na tu temu.

U konačnici, MS će imati driver koji će bolje surađivati kad je Linux guest virtualiziran pod MS Hyper-V hostom. Radi o nečem sličnom kao što su paravirtualizirani  "virtio" driveri za linux KVM Hypervizor (mreža i disk kontroler) koji poboljšavaju IO performanse guesta.

Da, a VMWare to sve radi iz čistih altruističkih razloga. LOL - Braniš jednu kompaniju koju zanima profit, zbog druge? - Još bolje kad bi Microsoft tu ušao i bio konkurencija.

Nemam razloga braniti bilo koga, VMWare ionako drži 80-90% tržišta kad se radi o virtualizaciji na x86 platformi. Daleko su mi draži Xen, i osobito KVM :).

Al bitno je da se shvati zašto je M$ postao Linux kernel contributor, iako su do ne tako davno tvrdili da ima njihovog kôda u kernelu, da je to komunistički OS, financirali iza leđa SCO kad su ovi tužbama udarili na IBM, itd. :). Cijela stvar nema puno veze s Linux-om, već time da M$ želi postati daleko ozbiljniji igrač na polju x86 virtulizacije.

It's all part of the game...