Re:Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things
by yoasif_ on Friday April 05, 2013 @02:12PM
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"(funny that Microsoft contributed most lines of code to the Linux kernal)"
is not quoted in the source material and isn't true. Please provide some proof for this claim.
Re:Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things
by cinquemb on Friday April 05, 2013 @02:39PM
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this is the internet right?
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/linux-kernel-in-2011...
Re:Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things
by fnordfnordfnord on Friday April 05, 2013 @04:08PM
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>A new addition to the list of top contributors this year was Microsoft. The Redmond giant was the 17th most prolific corporate contributor to the Linux kernel in 2011. The company first began contributing code to Linux in 2009 when it submitted patches to improve the performance of running virtualized Linux guest instances on Windows servers.
That's not nearly the same as "Microsoft contributed most lines of code to the Linux kernal"
Re:Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things
by beambot on Friday April 05, 2013 @04:10PM
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"17th most prolific corporate contributor" != most lines.
Re:Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things
by gjulianm on Friday April 05, 2013 @02:35PM
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It provided a lot of lines of code, and it was the main contributor one year IIRC. But most of that was Hyper-V related code, to make Linux work better as a virtual machine guest over Windows.
Re:Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things
by cinquemb on Friday April 05, 2013 @04:18PM
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thank you everyone for pointing out the err in my tidbit that i added and corrected… care to add something to the discussion on the subject matter that was not included in parenthesis, or is this err something thats so egregious that it takes away from main topic?
its like people feeling the need to correct grammar on the internet: most of the time they have nothing else to add to the discusion…
"Monopolies aren't great for society. So we have trust busters in government whose job it is to keep the monopolies in check. But they don't do that so well. And our government is pretty good at handing monopolies out. Just look at the cable industry.
A few entrepreneurs in a garage. Or a few hackers on the Internet. They are the best trust busters of them all. Look what open source Linux did to Microsoft (funny that Microsoft contributed m̶o̶s̶t̶ a significant amount of lines of code to the Linux kernel starting in 2009; EDIT: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/linux-kernel-in-2011...). They put a dent in a machine that the government could not. And look at what Lyft, Sidecar, and Uber did to the medallion owners in San Franscisco. They got cabs on the streets when the government could not.
Never doubt that a small startup can take on a huge monopoly. Indeed, it is the only thing that can."