Microsoft helps Linux in his kernel

Apparently microsoft appears in the top 20 contributors to the Linux kernel.

According to a report by the Linux Foundation, the Redmond firm appears in the top 20 Linux kernel contributors contributing 1%. Only news by 1%? important thing is that Microsoft has always been contrary to the philosophy and what I call a rival to Linux as "cancer".

Something interesting is that in July 2009, the signing of Ballmer surprised the technology worldaportando20.000 lines of code in a device driver for the Linux community and from there the contributions have not stopped. In July 2011, the developer of MicrosoftKY Srinivasan became one of the main contributors to the 3.0 version of the Linux kernel and worked for tuning controllers Microsoft virtualization platform Hyper-V.

As a last note, the Linux kernel to passed the 15Millones lines, something amazing.!

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