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>Capitalism - from where you think the money for developing Ubuntu and Linux in general are coming ? Do you really think Linux is developed by people in their free time ? Sorry to break it to you but today's most Linux development is made by people hired by private companies.

Agreed, but joining hands with someone who fight against linux(ubuntu is linux) for patents doesn't make sense.



Last year MS was in the top 20 Linux kernel contributors:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/03/microsoft_linux_kern...


Yes, main reason was for virtualization(Hypervisior) and I remember greg kroah warning the code which they contributed had maintenance problems. That behaviour is expected from windows




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