The whole debacle about the failing legacy hardware drivers submarining the Redmond based software giant has perpetual comical effects. The company has taken a hard beating on their Vista OS and instead of working on improving their failing product has decided to release a new one. Maybe not such a bad idea business wise, time will tell. While on the desktop front MS still holds the reins for millions of computer users thanks to ominous vendor lock-in in schools and the workplace . Not so on the server side of the blade. Through a decade of development and hard work of volunteers to the source. Linux has become a force to be reckoned with and takes up a big chunk in servers deployed by big companies. A rolling trend has formed, virtualization. The host system can be of any persuasion running a manager software program to control the images and share processes among resources. This turns out to be a proven energy and resource saver. A system running several instances of a server makes efficient use of said resources by cutting down on idling time. Microsoft has not been blind by this and has several products to manage server instances. Now this is where I’m going with this, the Kalonial Behemoth has decided that in order to keep it’s market share for this application it has to support Linux on said products. They are going to achieve this by < drum roll> committing source code to the Linux kernel to support driver needs. Now Microsoft hates the GPL,and has called the open software license anti-American. Has Microsoft sold out America?