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For whatever the resaon might be, Microsoft also does this : http://www.itproportal.com/2011/07/18/microsoft-contribution...

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From the Wikipedia entry for "Linux kernel":

"In July 2009 Microsoft submitted Hyper-V drivers to the kernel, which improve the performance of virtual Linux guest systems in a Windows hosted environment. Microsoft was forced to submit the code when it was discovered that Microsoft had incorporated a Hyper-V network driver with GPL-licensed components statically linked to closed-source binaries."

So obviously Microsoft didn't do it for altruistic motives.

Does any corporation do anything for altruistic motives?

I believe the only thing that a corporation can do that can count for "altruism" would be to produce a product / service that doesn't suck and practice fairplay rules with its competitors.Nothing more is expected of a corporation in an ideal society.

The corporation sounds like a sociopathic entity by it's very design. No wonder Mussolini said that corporatism was the first step towards fascism, which, rather alarmingly, implies that the world has already taken it's first steps towards it.

I don't think all corporations can be termed as sociopathic institutions . There are ofcourse certain aspects of its design , that makes it behave this way. Majority of the countries are dependent on growth based economies. So it becomes mandatory for an corporation to show a higher rate of growth and hence all kinds of malpratices arise. I am not sure whether measuring an institutions performance from one quarter to the next quarter is a good practice of measure. Correct me if I am wrong.

I ruled out altuim , I was just searching for what the "ulterior objective" might be. Thanks for the info....

> “The vast bulk of Microsoft’s contributions has been to its own Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor drivers. Hyper-V is Microsoft’s 64-bit hypervisor-based virtualization system,”

"whatever the reason might be" as if it wasn't clearly stated in the article.

Contributing to Linux to allow it to run better with MSFT products hardly absolves them from funding SCO.

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