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to come up with better material than that old nugget. That one has been overused for years by Mickeysoft supporters. You're taking the quote out of context and ignoring the actual meaning. Torvalds was talking about Microsoft coming to terms with the need to use Open Source and work within the Open Source community to write drivers for one of its own products. Torvalds was acknowledging that in that case Microsoft was finding benefit for itself working with the Open Source community rather than against it. He also recognized that Microsoft had been an antagonist but taking a pragmatic approach to Microsoft's contribution in this case was beneficial to the overall Open Source/Linux movement and rather than excluding Microsoft's contribution out of hatred for their past deeds the community should be accepting of their contribution. That doesn't excuse the damage the company has caused. Its more a we'll see how it goes from here approach.On the other hand Linus Torvalds is well known for his blunt and honest responses to bullshit. I have no doubt he would be very blunt should he feel Microsoft is being underhanded in any way should they decide to mess with the Linux code base by submitting intentionally crap code or contributions designed to cause problems with the Linux kernel.

Give it a break on your hate Linux campaign. We're here to stay.