So, Microsoft submits 20000 lines of code to the Linux kernel, all licensed under the GPL. Microsoft, who considers Linux a great threat, and once called the GPL a "cancer". Opinions on this one are flying all around us, but what does Linus Torvalds, Linux' benevolent dictator, think about all this?

 

Linus hasn't actually looked at the code yet. It's driver code, low-risk and he isn't very interested in driver code anyway. He trusts the maintainers will do their jobs. "I'll likely look at it when the code is actually submitted to me by the maintainers (Greg [Kroah-Hartman], in this case), just out of morbid curiosity," Linus adds.

 

As most of you will be aware of, Linus is very forthright, and generally doesn't hold back when it comes to his opinions. He's also very pragmatic, and both of these qualities come forward quite clearly when Linus talks about Microsoft's code drop. I'm not going to squeeze his words into running text.

 

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