> MS is on the defensive, but unfortunately, they have come up with an
> EXTREMELY effective counter-attack. LKML folks know better than to ever
> look at any code that could even be vaguely construed as MS-origin for
> precisely this reason.
I'll add a "yes and no" to this.
There is also an advantage to having someone check the open source code
against the pseudo-opened proprietary stuff to make sure there are no
inadvertant similarities.
We are talking about millions of line of code here. Chances are, some
few lines are going to be identical or nearly so, if only because
someone at Microsoft and somone working on the Linux kernel learned from
the same teacher and have a similar style.
- Robin
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