<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/6 Praveen A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pravi.a@gmail.com">pravi.a@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For a decade, Microsoft was open source's worst enemy, combating it at<br>
every turn. But last week Microsoft joined the Apache open source<br>
project as a platinum sponsor, promising to put $100,000 per year into<br>
a project that beats its own IIS (Internet Information Services) in<br>
the market. Microsoft also made some of their patents available for<br>
use in GPL software like Linux without a royalty.<br>
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Has Redmond given up the fight? Or is this just their latest strategy?<br>
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Read full story at<br>
<a href="http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3762786/Bruce+Perens:+Microsoft+and+Apache+-+Whats+the+Angle?.htm" target="_blank">http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3762786/Bruce+Perens:+Microsoft+and+Apache+-+Whats+the+Angle?.htm</a><br>
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Regards<br>
Praveen<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>It seems M$ can't no longer withstand the pressure from FOSS community<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Manilal K M : മണിലാല് കെ എം.<br><a href="http://libregeek.blogspot.com">http://libregeek.blogspot.com</a><br>
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