[clug] Thoughts on Microsoft's Linux patch?

[Daniel Pittman]

Chris Smart <mail at christophersmart.com> writes:

> I'm curious to hear what CLUGGers think about the hyper-v code from
> Microsoft for the kernel?
>
> I've written an article about it ("http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7439/"),
> which has some responses from Linus.  I was gonna mention it last night, but
> we were all too busy with Tridge's patch testing.

Your article doesn't seem to touch, one way or another, on the apparent news
that this was done because the code in question violated the GPL by using a
number of third-party GPL projects.

Was that deliberate, accidental, or did I just miss it somewhere in the text?

Regards,
        Daniel

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