Microsoft supports Linux
By Ria Sharma

Even though Linux is free and open source and an inspiring example of how voluntary work can create and modify one of the most popular operating systems in the world, it also draws lot of support from commercial companies like Microsoft.

Tech site H-Online is reporting

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The 343 changes made by Microsoft developer K. Y. Srinivasan put him at the top of a list, created by LWN.net, of developers who made the most changes in the current development cycle for Linux 3.0. Along with a number of other "change sets", Microsoft provided a total of 361 changes, putting it in seventh place on the list of companies and groups that contributed code to the Linux kernel. By comparison, independent developers provided 1,085 change sets to Linux 3.0, while Red Hat provided 1,000 and Intel 839.
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