Microsoft, which has been at war with the Linux community over the years, has made a massive u-turn and released 20,000 lines of Linux code to the Linux kernel community.

The code includes three Linux device drivers and will be available to both the Linux community and customers. It will enhance the performance of the Linux operating system when virtualised on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 virtualisation software, according to Microsoft. Code will be offered under the GNU General Public License 2.

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Marketers, if you've steered clear of placing ads on user-generated content sites, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has a message for you: Stop fretting and start buying space.

During his keynote here at the ad:tech San Francisco conference, Wales tried to convince skittish marketers to get over their fears about seeing their precious ads displayed on a site that's also home to lolcats, bizarre videos culled from the darkest depths of YouTube, badly spelled rants and snapshots of last weekend's fraternity party.

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