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uzyn 12:43 pm on July 26, 2009 Reply
Tags: linus torvalds (2), linux (6), microsoft (19)   

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  kahwee 11:54 pm on July 26, 2009 Permalink

  Smart asked Torvalds if Microsoft was contributing the code to benefit the Linux community or Microsoft. ‘I agree that it’s driven by selfish reasons, but that’s how all open source code gets written! We all “scratch our own itches.”

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  ‘So complaining about the fact that Microsoft picked a selfish area to work on is just silly. Of course they picked an area that helps them. That’s the point of open source — the ability to make the code better for your particular needs, whoever the “your” in question happens to be.’”

  Selfish? I don’t really selfishness here. For the first time something is being shared, calling the landmark move “selfish” is not appropriate.

  I don’t think Linus is happy about it, deep down he’s probably hating it but he can’t do a thing. Not accepting the code would be a major boo-boo for open source, they have to accept it anyway.

  Linus is like a baker who ate someone else’s piece of cake and insists a little more milk would be better.

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