Microsoft goes Open Source
Sounds very strange that the company which has been against the open source and dismissed it as a non serious player has taken the route to open source. No they are not giving away all the windows code to open source (some of you would love to have it) but they have submitted 20,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree.
The three device drivers are being released under the GPLv2 license, which is the Linux community’s preferred license.
This comes on the heel of making SilverLight open source. Read Silver Light goes Open Source
