Microsoft embraces Linux cancer to sell Windows servers

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 21, 2009 5:47 AM EDT
The Register; By Gavin Clarke
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Microsoft is embracing cancer to help ensure Windows survives server-room consolidation. The company has released 20,000 lines of Windows kernel code under version two of the GPL. Microsoft called the license it once hated "the community's preferred license". How things have changed. Back in 2001, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie described the GPL as a threat to users' intellectual property and the independent commercial software sector.

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