Jul 25
Tags: apache, funding, Microsoft, Open Source, open source projects, promoting open source
Microsoft on Friday expanded its support for the open-source community by giving money to the Apache Software Foundation, the first time it has given money to the long-standing open-source project.
Microsoft also said it is contributing code to support a PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) project and committing to offer royalty-free specifications for Windows Server and.NET Framework protocols as part of its expanded support for the open-source community. The company announced its plans at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) now being held in Portland, Oregon.
Full Story at Yahoo News
July 27th, 2008 at 2:03 am
Definately a interesting move for microsoft.
Pretty curious to see where this leads to.
July 27th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I am a Open Source guy and I find this a great news. Perhaps I will post it in my blog too.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Wow, I can’t believe I would see the words “Open Source” in the same line as Microsoft or the fact that Microsoft is actually supporting open source! This seems like a positive step, but it will remain to be seen what are Microsoft’s intentions for this move? Time will tell…
July 28th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
nice post dude so interesting..
July 28th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
hmmm… microsoft is catching up with the trends now!!
July 29th, 2008 at 4:33 am
Sounds to me like Microsoft is just buying a way to clear their name among Open Source fans while they continue to silently squelch that community. Also, it’ll make them “look good” to Yahoo! Not working for me, though. Microsoft is old news and on their way out.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
*coughs*
microsoft? open source? you must be kidding.
August 9th, 2008 at 5:51 am
I guess Microsoft knows that they can’t do anything about the open source anymore. They know people are more and more into the Apache thing. And those people might also leave the Microsoft software development tools too. So leave Microsoft’s Internet webserver behind, just don’t leave the software development tools hehehe… something kind of like that. – from a non-Microsoft software development tool user’s view
August 15th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
i heard about this before. Good luck for Microsoft!
August 18th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Microsoft starts thinking!