Received: by 10.180.86.97 with SMTP id o1mr3123831wiz.2.1350352495138; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:54:55 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: q10ni65138158wif.0!nntp.google.com!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!85.12.40.130.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.panservice.it!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Ahlstrom Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Microsoft kernel code-fisters Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 06:32:12 -0400 Organization: None Lines: 69 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: ahlstr...@bellsouth.net Injection-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 10:32:10 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="015e33b499160c66e1da851df0392a8b"; logging-data="12796"; mail-complaints-to="ab...@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+8H9JZ1jASv6TWpFP0PlGI" User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) X-User-Agent: Microsoft Outl00k, Usenet k00k Edition Cancel-Lock: sha1:gE65AJe3HM1eGQY4+iTMYkhrqLY= Bytes: 3880 After swilling some grog, owl belched this bit o' wisdom: > Snit wrote: >> On 10/7/12 2:52 PM, in article uQmcs.269072$2%5.90...@fx05.am4, "7" >> wrote: > >> > Anyone who tries to bring in ex-microshaft employees >> > into a company should be frog marched out the door > >> From an illiterate and foolish perspective, sure. Those of us who >> understand the tech industry know of folks such as Gabe Newell and Mohamad >> Jarrar, > > Who? Are they recent drone strike targets? > >> but those names likely mean nothing to you. > >> By the way, keep in mind that MS was one of the top contributors to Linux >> last year. > > They added some bloatware interface, which was itself bloatware. And a lot of the activity from Microsoft was the churn of fixing things they hadn't bothered to get right the first time. And it's not "Linux" per se, it's only the kernel. Anyway, one (flawed) aspect of the story: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2166123/microsoft-contributed-code-canonical-linux-2632 Microsoft contributed more code than Canonical to Linux since 2.6.32 More code? No, not code... code and code changes. In other words, code-fisting slop. To continue: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Microsoft entered the top 20 in the list of Linux kernel contributors, coming in 17th place ahead of Linaro and Canonical. Microsoft, a firm that many Linux users believe tried to kill off Linux through SCO, is the 17th most active contributor to the Linux kernel project since version 2.6.36. According to figures released by the Linux Foundation, Microsoft submitted 688 changes, one per cent of the overall changelog. One percent, eh? And Snit converts that to >> MS was one of the top contributors to Linux Whereas the reality is that Microsoft's contribution was tiny: Microsoft's contribution in the grand scale of Linux is tiny, with Red Hat, Intel, Novell and IBM accounting for almost 25 per cent of all changes. Microsoft however is very keen to make Linux distributions work well with its Hyper-V hypervisor, so its kernel contributions are not entirely selfless. As the loose wording of the URL title shows, though, Snit is not the only dumbass to crow misleadingly about Microsoft's "top" contribution to the "Linux". -- The Least Successful Equal Pay Advertisement In 1976 the European Economic Community pointed out to the Irish Government that it had not yet implemented the agreed sex equality legislation. The Dublin Government immediately advertised for an equal pay enforcement officer. The advertisement offered different salary scales for men and women. -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"