Microsoft & Linux, "Get the Facts" & "contribute to the Linux kernel"

Я не собираюсь никого агитировать за Linux или против Microsoft, "Пусть расцветают сто цветов, пусть соревнуются сто учений". Я лишь хочу привести некоторые факты...

The Linux Foundation Releases Annual Linux Development Report by Linux_Foundation - April 3, 2012 - 7:09am:

Key findings from this year’s paper include:

§ For the first time, Microsoft appears on list of companies that are contributing to the Linux kernel. Ranking at number 17, the company that once called Linux a “cancer,” today is working within the collaborative development model to support its virtualization efforts and its customers. Because Linux has reached a state of ubiquity, in which both the enterprise and mobile computing markets are relying on the operating system, Microsoft is clearly working to adapt.

А ведь это та же компания, которая создала кампанию "Get the Facts": http://web.archive.org/web/20050321154419/http://www.microsoft.com/rus/getthefacts/default.mspx

И напоследок, старая добрая пропаганда от Красной Шапочки, в которой меня в своё время поразили слова того, с кем Владимир Владимирович хотел бы поговорить: ( Truth Happends, RedHat, November 12, 2008 )