Wow. I point out a contribution, one that places MS in the top seven of contributors to the already closed-source binary blob riddled Linux kernel (more and more each iteration), it's safe to say that people are overlooking that Microsoft actually does contribute to Linux.

Not that they are not quite self-serving, as is Apple who's not yet released all versions and iterations of their contributions to Webkit.

Again, showing how a company that makes the minority of their money from open source does not tend to do much for the community, unless it's quite self-serving.

Red Hat would be basically the complete opposite. Without the Linux community, they would not have the revenue they currently enjoy via support and advancement of their chosen platform.

Now, let's let cooler heads prevail for a moment. That's nothing new. Not at all.

Kool-aid? No thank you. It offends my taste buds. As does a lot of the rhetoric in this thread that does not know the whole picture enough to talk about parts of it they do not know about. Microsoft contributes, but only to benefit themselves. Apple contributes, yet holds back code occasionally. Google contributes, but has held an entire iteration of their OS back from AOSP (Honeycomb) and have forked in so many different ways they've created a potential problem in the near future.