[Fsf-friends] Bruce Perens: Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?

Manilal K M libregeek at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 11:19:05 IST 2008


2008/8/6 Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com>

> 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 $100,000 per year into
> a project that beats its own IIS (Internet Information Services) in
> the market. Microsoft also made some of their patents available for
> use in GPL software like Linux without a royalty.
>
> Has Redmond given up the fight? Or is this just their latest strategy?
>
> Read full story at
>
> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3762786/Bruce+Perens:+Microsoft+and+Apache+-+Whats+the+Angle?.htm
>
> Regards
> Praveen
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It seems M$ can't no longer withstand the pressure from FOSS community

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