Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 1, 2008 11:14 PM EDT
IT Management; By Bruce Perens 		Mail this story
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For a decade, Microsoft was open source's worst enemy, combating it at every turn. But last week Microsoft joined the Apache open source project as a platinum sponsor, promising to put $100,000 per year into a project that beats its own IIS (Internet Information Services) in the market. Microsoft also made some of their patents available for use in GPL software like Linux without a royalty. Has Redmond given up the fight? Or is this just their latest strategy?

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Bruce misses the main point Sander_Marechal 4 1,283 Aug 2, 2008 11:41 PM
Self-contradicting, but OK anyway... dinotrac 1 1,352 Aug 2, 2008 1:10 AM

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