Microsoft/Linux milestones

20.07.2009
Microsoft Monday made an by submitting device drivers to the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. Microsoft has had a checkered past with both Linux and its open source GPL licensing structure, so the move was a jaw dropper. Here is a look at some of the milestones since Microsoft internal memos leaked in 1998 that attacked the open source Linux operating system as it began to pick up steam as an alternative to Windows.

 

Internal Microsoft attacking Linux leak out.

May -- Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior vice president, says the GPL to the intellectual property of any organization making use of it.