ETH Zurich, Microsoft Release New Barrelfish OS

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Microsoft and the ETH Zurich released a new version of their Barrelfish operating system.

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[plznote]

Microsoft? Open Source?
What an oxymoron..

 

[ojas]

nice...hope it makes it to the consumer market one day...

 

[Silmarunya]

[citation][nom]plznote[/nom]Microsoft? Open Source?What an oxymoron..[/citation]

Not really, they made quite a few open source products and donate to a huge number of open source projects. Which is of course understandable, as having open standards on top of your own closed source empire makes the life of your devs far easier.

 

[jeffunit]

[citation][nom]Silmarunya[/nom]Not really, they made quite a few open source products and donate to a huge number of open source projects. Which is of course understandable, as having open standards on top of your own closed source empire makes the life of your devs far easier.[/citation]

Perhaps you could name these 'quite a few open source products' and 'huge number of open source projects'. If you look at the major contributors to open source, microsoft is a tiny player.

http/dltj.org/article/company-contributions-to-open-source/
for the linux kernel, microsoft isn't even listed.

Google has a 'summer of code' and it is all open source. What does microsoft have?

 

[NivenFres]

[citation][nom]jeffunit[/nom]Perhaps you could name these 'quite a few open source products' and 'huge number of open source projects'. If you look at the major contributors to open source, microsoft is a tiny player.http/dltj.org/article/company-co [...] en-source/for the linux kernel, microsoft isn't even listed.Google has a 'summer of code' and it is all open source. What does microsoft have?[/citation]

Try http/www.microsoft.com/opensource/directory.aspx

Some of their linux contributions involve Hyper-V support in the linux kernel, allowing for better virtual linux servers in a hyper-v environment.

 

[poloytisoy]

Business ass usual...

 

[dkant1n]

Very interesting idea, this is innovation.

 

[lethal decipher]

All of the above missed the point...
...as far as 'free', nothing is free, someone had to pay something somewhere along the line.