Funny, I missed the "GPL is a virus" point in their press release... I just thought they had integrity.

It's the integrity of how they handled the situation... someone pointed out the possible GPL violation... they pull the tool and let everyone know they're looking into it... then they announce they've looked into it and as a result, they're going to release the source code in accordance with the GPL, something MS would rather not do, to honor the licence, and the community need for the tool.

Integrity = Awesome, in my humble opinion...

If you worked at Microsoft, you'd know that it takes patience and time away from the horrific workload and schedules to code review every third-party thing that came through the door. When I worked at Microsoft, our vendor routinely used code they weren't supposed to EVEN THOUGH it was in their contract not to. I would sometimes come across a bug somewhere and I'd find something stolen off the net, and I'd have to pull it and reprimand the vendor, and then get them to do the work and pay them for it again. It's easy to sit at your computer desk and pontificate about how MS is trying to pull a fast one on everyone. Shit, if you only knew how ingrained in the culture it is to homegrow everything, and steal nothing. Very strong corporate policies there at MS, and everyone is subject to disciplinary action if you've intentionally tried to pull a fast one in one way shape or form. Trust me, the Program Manager who owns that tool is shitting in his/her pants, as it's going on their performance review for not tightening up on code quality. From my experience there, MS takes this shit seriously.

Awesome!

Using TVersity, you can use it as a media player for your HDTV. Very handy.

Back up your argument before making blanket statements like that. I think you're full of shit. Prove me wrong.

If you lived in Redmond, WA, you'd know why the article's author is full of shit. Try commuting from main campus, and with a company that has had significant expansion over the last few years, commutes are painful, streets are crowded, and traffic is always challenged either with going to or coming from work. There are traffic studies done ALL THE TIME in Redmond, and if you only felt the pain of the congestion in this small town, you'd know that MS didn't have to offer to pay for anything for this bridge, but they are.

This happens not only with emplyers, but border guards are now looking at people's activity online to make sure you represent what you say you are, especially if you're a valid foreign worker working in the US. Beware the blog and social networking site if you're on a visa, because what you post can hurt you.

I'm thinking the same thing, with a twist. Instead of creating a CPU, they might be trying to build a Transmeta-like converter to work with their GPU technology to support Larabee-like extensions to the x86 instruction set. Perhaps NVidia knows that the future is in hygrid ray-tracing with rasterization, and one of the ways to get developers to keep supporting the NVidia platform is to make NVidia's platform support the same crap that Intel is devising with Larabee. That way, game and graphics devs don't need to work as hard trying to fit Larabee ray-tracing techniques into a rasterization engine on the GeForce platform.

Thoughts?

Fuck that bullshit... that's complete dickwadishness. First Amendment, you fucking assholes! Suck it!

All the swearing was for effect. I hope I got my point across! :)