Microsoft Gives Code To Linux Community

Microsoft Corp., which has not been in favour of Linux community over the years due to the issues related to intellectual property rights, announced on Monday it has unleashed 20,000 lines of Linux code under the General Public Licence (GPL). The software giant has submitted the new code to the Linux Kernel community for insertion in the Linux tree, and says it will be introduced as component of the 2.6.30.1 stable release. The newly launched code incorporates three...