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I open my feed reader, I consult my Twitter and I find myself with surprising news related to Microsoft and Free Software, the kind of news that make you rethink that strategy change this outdated institution is occurring.

However, after reading them carefully, I think it’s just another edition of the famous “make a virtue of necessity” :

The first story talks about the release of drivers for Linux by Microsoft, no less than under the GPL 2 license. Richard Stallman will be freaking out! GPL2, buddy!, Many will think. I think not, Stallman is almost always 3 steps ahead of the rest in this issue of “software wars” , so I do not see it being so naive. If we read more calmly we see that the drivers are released to their virtualization technologies work well to virtualize Linux and the choice of GPL 2 is almost obligatory, if they want to get into the Linus tree . In other words, “make a virtue of necessity” (catch up with competitors and try starting right where they like to be accepted.)

As discussed in ComputerWorld , some as Scott Gilbert is more ironic: “Microsoft’s Linux code? As a chocolate peanut butter. Drivers unnecessary to use Linux over Windows ” .

The second has to do with the development of a plugin for Moodle to integrate Live @ Edu on the popular LMS free. Will Microsoft programming free Moodle? Wow! Hell is freezing! Far from it. Again, “making a virtue of necessity” has been developing the Moodle community to interact with blocks from Moodle and Google Apps there is a hard struggle for education among the services sector (semi) free Microsoft (based on Live) and Google (based on Google Apps). Given the massive deployment of Moodle to develop this plugin is just another strategy guided by the raw need to go into the schools.

To finish with good taste, another story about Microsoft and Free Software that I could not see it as opportunistic, but as a genuine interest from some of its employees to cooperate with a free community with cache like Perl. Microsoft has opened its Open Source Network CPAN Author Lab to all developers who are interested in it. This means that if any Perl developer needs to test Windows machines (Windows XP Professional, Server 2003 (32/64 bit), Server 2008 (32/64 bit), Vista Ultimate and Windows 7 beta.) To test the Use Free et amore . Someone might think it’s easy to free access to the Lab, it costs nothing and you get Perl geeks you carry your Windows language to his face. Well, yes, but unlike in previous cases, I do not think Perl is a priority line for Microsoft (virtualization and education they mean.)

Do I have a dirty look and see what you think?

Update: It seems that what the need was such that, Microsoft was forced to release their code under GPL 2 in the case of drivers , because they had no choice.

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