Second Microsoft GPLv2 code within a week, this time for Moodle

Second Microsoft GPLv2 code within a week, this time for Moodle

Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Education Labs release Windows Live Moodle Plug-in
At OSCON today [21 July] the Microsoft Eduation Labs group released a Windows Live services plug-in for the open source Moodle e-learning platform.
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NicFill/Education-Labs-release-Windows-Live-Moodle-Plug-in/ (interesting video 19 min)

The first one being the Hyper-V driver for Linux http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Jul09/07-20LinuxQA.mspx

(found in http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Microsoft-veroeffentlicht-Moodle-Plug-in-unter-der-GPL--/meldung/142360 [German])

MS have come a long way since Ballmer called Linux a cancer http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/ haven't they?

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Re: Second Microsoft GPLv2 code within a week, this time for Moodle

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"MS have come a long way..."

Well, yes and no. They have had quite a bit of involvement with Moodle in the past - a lot of their education customers use Moodle so they are forced to too, I guess. ;) For them it's obviously all about making MS services more attractive, which is fair enough.
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