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Re:Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community by Tamerlin on Monday July 20, 2009 @02:14PM (#714830)
This isn't a first for MS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa569283.aspx

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm...

The entire spec for .NET including the CLR and C# are under ECMA's control, rather than Microsoft's. And MS is actively supporting the Mono project.

I'm not claiming that they're doing it out of altruism, but rather that they're seeing the value in supporting open source. It just took them longer than it did for others ;)

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Re:Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community by imbaczek on Monday July 20, 2009 @03:00PM (#714919)
yes, but the issue at hand is the fact that MS, the M$, released code under GPL. it's huge no matter how you look at it.
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Re:Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community by Tamerlin on Monday July 20, 2009 @04:39PM (#715141)
True. I didn't intend to minimize that, just pointing out that it does seem to be a trend.
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