Hi all, On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Rafael Correia wrote:

The purpose of Microsoft at a Open Source event? Steal code, of course.

-- Rafael Correia

Actually, Microsoft contributes to open source [1]. Including to Linux kernel, with drivers [2]. I guess we should be thankful for they spend they time and money helping the kernel. Personally I don't care what they true intentions are, and surely they only did this aiming on what any capitalist company would do, but the fact is that helps Linux as a software. [ ]'s [1] http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/ [2] http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/project-detail.aspx?pid=18 -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fotanus@gmail.com Blog: http://www.itlife.com.br Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ ----- "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - Gandalf

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 18:34 -0300, Hilton Medeiros wrote:

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 18:16:51 -0300 Felipe Tanus wrote:

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Hi all,

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Rafael Correia wrote:

...

The purpose of Microsoft at a Open Source event? Steal code, of course.

-- Rafael Correia

Actually, Microsoft contributes to open source [1]. Including to Linux kernel, with drivers [2]. I guess we should be thankful for they spend they time and money helping the kernel. Personally I don't care what they true intentions are, and surely they only did this aiming on what any capitalist company would do, but the fact is that helps Linux as a software.

[ ]'s

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/ [2] http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/project-detail.aspx?pid=18

Don't do that, please. Defending MS for fun in a Linux mailing list won't get you anywhere. You have a blog for posting your thoughts. Useless flamebait posts should be motive enough for a ban. Don't even start, please.

If that's the case criticizing Microsoft for fun should be enough to earn a ban. The snide comments on Microsoft's intentions are much worse flame-baiting than clarification on Microsoft's real (admittedly minor) contributions to the kernel. Linux is not a religious cult.

Excerpts from Felipe Tanus's message of 2010-06-07 23:16:51 +0200:

Hi all,

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Rafael Correia wrote:

...

The purpose of Microsoft at a Open Source event? Steal code, of course.

-- Rafael Correia

Actually, Microsoft contributes to open source [1]. Including to Linux kernel, with drivers [2]. I guess we should be thankful for they spend they time and money helping the kernel. Personally I don't care what they true intentions are, and surely they only did this aiming on what any capitalist company would do, but the fact is that helps Linux as a software.

[ ]'s

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/ [2] http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/project-detail.aspx?pid=18

I seem to remember that those drivers are really badly maintained. And opensource is a term that can have a broad range of meanings, in the case of microsoft it usually means "You can look at the code, nothing else." -- Regards, Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan

Dear Sven-Hendrik,

I will attend and I'll even be an exhibitor. Meet me at the linux-gamers booth. I'll be there with at least another Archer. I'll probably be there all the time.

great! I'll drop by, probably on Friday. Looking forward to seeing you :-) Mathias