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Microsoft Engineer Sends Rust Linux Kernel Patches For In-Place Module Initialization
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If you browse the LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing List) for 5 minutes, you'll probably see a bunch of microsoft.com email addresses, and it's been that way for years. I understand why it bothers some people, but also Linus (and a couple others) approve everything that actually gets merged, whether it's from a microsoft employee, or a redhat employee, or anyone else. Even if microsoft wanted to pay employees to submit patches that would hurt the kernel, the chance that they'd actually be approved is so low it wouldn't be worth their time.
To be clear, I wasn’t thinking Microsoft was sabotaging Linux; if they’re contributing officially I assume it’s because they’re also using it or want to increase adoption of something they’re creating by making it widely available.
I figured you were being genuine, but there's usually a few people who point at Microsoft's "embracing" of Linux as the first step in the "embrace, extend, extinguish" trope, and see any involvement by Microsoft as nefarious. When the reality is just that Microsoft's Azure cloud services are a much larger share of their annual revenue than Windows, and Linux is a major part of their cloud offerings.
@jqubed @MrMcGasion Microsoft uses Linux for it's Azure Cloud services and internally for building purposes
Microsoft from what I can see seem to love Linux, with the advent of dotnet core, azure Linux, official Microsoft guide for installing Linux on your machine, wsl etc etc
It is slightly concerning but you have a good point of everything they contribute is vetted and I'm glad to have more time and money invested into its development