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Yahoo Becomes Apache Platinum Sponsor
jschauma writes "Yahoo published a press release announcing that it has become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. In their company blog, Yahoo points out their particular interest in the Apache projects Lucene and Hadoop, and that they have hired Doug Cutting, creator of both projects and VP at Apache. (Lucene powers the search on Wikipedia; Yahoo also provides hosting capacity to Wikimedia.)"
I was curious, can you deduct money you give to the apache foundation as a charitable donation? They are a not-for-profit organization aren't they? It certainly would be an interesting way for companies to mess with their books.
If you are about to mod me down, keep in mind that this post was most likely sarcastic.
I gave up on Yahoo many years ago and moved to Google in preference. More and more lately, with improved search results, useful information, less restrictive email, and now support for one of my favorite OSS projects, they lure me back.
Keep up the good work Yahoo.
Back in my day when we chiseled our bits into stone and sent them by mule train from village to village...
Is it just me, or is Yahoo really what Google purports to be these days?
Mmmmmm....
I wonder what would happen if everyone who was using FOSS software like Apache actually supported it? I'm not talking sending your favorite Linux distro the cost of Vista Home Basic, but like $20 spread across your four or 5 favorite projects. I donated to OCAL earlier this year, but I really need to send a Christmas present to the guys at Inkscape. This story's a good reminder.
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
I hope Yahoo taking an interest in Lucene involves them making heavy improvements to it. Wikipedia's search is the worst.
They released Flickr Uploadr under GPL (2 only)
http://flickr.com/tools/uploadr/
The interesting thing here, it is using xulrunner from Mozilla && there no Linux binary!!!
"Steve Jobs invented the world" -- Bill W. GATES
Fail. I have a platinum account.
All you gents lauding Yahoo for being a platinum donor in comparisons to Google should take a look at Apache's donation thanks page, where google is also listed as a platinum donor
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Yes. Apache is a US charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. See the donation FAQ.
Furthermore, Apache is still almost completely a volunteer organization. The board members, officers and members do not take a salary from the donations. The only paid staff the ASF now has include a PR person, a system administrator, and a part-time secretary.
Disclaimer: I'm an Apache board member.
Who said Freedom was Fair?
Google is also an Apache platinum sponsor. We're happy to have both of them involved!
Who said Freedom was Fair?
Fail. You have an account on 4chan.
is being used to support FOSS. So what. ALL money is blood money nowadays :-(
I guess this puts Microsoft and Yahoo further apart. Not too long ago, it was speculated that Microsoft would make a move to buy Yahoo. Now Yahoo's sponsoring .NET's biggest competitor.
Full Tilt
Google sponsored several Summer of Code .... summers and good things came out of it. Some of the SoC projects actually ended as Lucene contributions, too.
Simpy
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Every time I see things like Google latching on to Firefox, or the ones referenced in TFA(S), I can't help but think that Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc. are simply snatching up open-source "territory".
I wonder what it means and where it will lead...
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
I work on their servers, they all run either FreeBSD or RedHat. (FYI those were the only choices as of a year ago in PXE reimage boots) Its not like they have many robust other hosting choices
Its good that they are support Apache, but really, they should of just did a joint statment with Goggle when they signed on. Sounds to much like a one-up manship.
If Major sponsors like yahoo adopt linux and opensource. It is going to be great for the opensource community as such.
Chris ,
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It would look like this. Then who would you choose?
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/today_in_stupid/mockup_what_if_google_made_a_yahoolike_start_page_1.html
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I agree that it is great that Yahoo is supporting Apache in this way. However, their webhosting (which uses apache, by the way) is still miserable. I'm not talking geocities, I'm talking their Small Business hosting that they tout as being so great. One of the websites I maintain is hosted by Yahoo Small Business. It is possibly the most restrictive host I have ever had to use. The user has very little control over apache settings, and in fact cannot even edit the .htaccess files. The strange, unintuitive, dumbed-down interface is so annoying that working from a computer without ftp access is excruciating. So, yes this is a step in the right direction, but their web hosting services still leave much to be desired.
so...who/what does the donated money go towards?
And there was me thinking that the tendency of Yahoo to cooperate with the Chinese Gov in tracking down "dissidents" would have made anything they did repulsive in the eyes of anyone with a heart. Accepting money off them comes under this assumption.
Such optimism, when will I ever learn? We're in the West where anything goes and the consequences, as long as they happen to others elsewhere, are of no concern to us. Who cares if we do business with those who have no conscience?
If Wikipedia had used MyISAM (or MySQL hadn't tied full text indexing to their storage engines), Wikipedia could have used MySQL full text searches instead of Lucene. That is a completely different matter, though.
So, please, mod parent to oblivion. (And when do we get a "Wrong" moderation? It could be a warning to moderators to look before they mod things up again...)
Eivind.
Doubting the existence of evolution is like doubting the existence of China: It just shows that you're uninformed.
The Wikipedia search sucks. It's case sensitive (but not always), doesn't use word stems (though it seems to sometimes), and has other inconsistent results that mix lexical and semantic matches with underwhelming effectiveness.
Now Yahoo wants the same "quality"? Their creating their most successful competitor in Google has really maimed their senses over there.
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And Microsoft will become someone's palladium sponsor
Onda Technology Institute
I used Yahoo! for years. Only in the last couple did I switch to Google. The A-One reason being the front page. Thank you very much! ps the reason I used yahoo was the simple fact, back in the day (dunno if this holds true anymore) i used to be able to type in the serial numbers of long forgotten hardware and get back somewhat relevant results. Google I'm sad to say, has failed each and every time I've tried to hunt down old school and obscure hardware. Pretty much the reason I don't bother trying to help people with older computers. I just don't have the resources to track down old drivers, patches, updates, information for old hardware these days.
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask where they're goin' and hook up with 'em later.
Me.
well I'm still complaining about how they crippled Geocities. They crippled the access to try to bleed money out of the community, then after they destroyed the community they stopped caring, and made their ads more intrusive. If they opened it up again it could still be a useful service, but it has been bypassed by the blogging generation.
need a free COBOL editor for Windows?
Possibly because you aren't actually being relevant.. certainly aren't in this case anyway, hijacking some other thread with your 'important question'. And yahoosyourdaddy, that's freakin hi-larious! :D ho ho ho. Merry Christmas.
which is totally what she said
Responding to the right parent poster makes it much easier on the reader.
I was responding to the 'right' poster? Or are you referring to his post? Tbh I dunno what appropriate place there is for his rant.. probably should just go in his sig or journal..
which is totally what she said
"Lucene provides search for Wikipedia"
I hate to say this, but Wikipedia's search is godawful. Sometimes it's more effective to just type what you want into the end of the URL and hope you hit a disambiguation page or something.
Seriously, Yahoo's search engine is in some regards better than Google's. I read last year that they had better results as judged in a double blind and Google was judged better only when people knew it came from Google. Dubious, but curious, I started doing searches on Yahoo, sometimes just as a test, sometimes when dissatisfied with Google. I was shocked to discover that Yahoo did provide better results most of the time.
Somehow, I'm still addicted to Google, but it's not always my first choice anymore. Certainly I'm still a fan of google, and my gmail still beats my Yahoo mail. Google supports Apache too, good for them! I'm not going to start using one search engine solely based on who they're supporting, but I'll probably start telling people to try Yahoo as often as I tell them to Google it... interesting though, now that google is a verb meaning 'use a search engine to find' I wonder if I'll hear people say 'google on yahoo for'.
Back in my day when we chiseled our bits into stone and sent them by mule train from village to village...