Re: Microsoft at LinuxTag

From: David N. Welton <davidw@dedasys.com>
Date: Sat May 29 2004 - 00:33:40 CEST

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> >> At least Microsoft funds development of free software.
> >
> > Such as?

> The Glasgow Haskell Compilation system, which is shipped by Debian.
> IIRC, some of the developers work for Microsoft Research, and GHC is
> related to their work there.

Simon Peyton Jones... nice, and very, very smart individual if you
ever get the chance to meet him.

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