Summary: Microsoft is using Linux again, so what are the implications of such hypocrisy?

MinceR has just pointed out that Microsoft is building products with Linux. Yes, that's GPL and it's the program Microsoft accuses of being a patent "pirate" or something.

The prototype works with a Vista host but the hardware comprising the NIC is based on a Linux stack.

Paul Hovnanian P.E writes in USENET, "Of course the production model will have the Linux system and network stack replaced with Windows CE ... no matter what the cost. So why not start with CE? Possible answer: They've actually got to get this thing to work and the best system to use certainly isn't Windows."

This is not the first time that Microsoft uses GNU and/or Linux internally [1, 2] simply because they work better. ⬆

"The number of developers working on improving Linux vastly exceeds the number of Microsoft developers working on Windows NT."

--Paul Maritz, Microsoft