Despite the assurances, the move will come as a surprise to many since Linux and Microsoft have not been moving parallelly. In fact, the Linux users criticized Microsoft for not being open source enough while Microsoft took potshots as well. Moving on, Kremlin says that the initial skepticism is the part and parcel of such announcement and added that Microsoft has been contemplating the open source idea from very long time. The Linux Foundation Platinum members are required to pay $500,000 and the list of members include Cisco, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm, Samsung, Google Facebook and many others. As part of the Microsoft-Linux collaboration John Gossman from the Azure team will join the Linux Foundation Board. The Linux Foundation Board is a non-profit technology trade association which works to promote, protect and also advance Linux and collaborative development. Ironically, exactly 15-years ago the then Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer had termed Linux as cancer. Well, the news of Microsoft joining Linux foundation has coincided with Google joining Microsoft’s .NET Foundation Technical Steering. All of these foundations are vendor neutral and help the partners to outpace the competitors on other platforms.
