They only thing they are contributing is their hv driver to make Linux run on Mircosoft HyperV.
HyperV has to support Linux.
And the major hv developer is a former Novell employee.
The article says the same thing (contributing to the HyperV driver). Why is the job history of this guy of interest?
So it's Microsoft employees as directed by their managers ... but not Microsoft? What is the distinction.
so the whole conversation is addressing a discussion elsewhere that is based on those two points: ms and linux are traditionally "enemies"; "ms" was misleadingly represented as making major contributions to linux 3.