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Yahoo Becomes Apache Platinum Sponsor

Posted by kdawson on from the confluence-of-interests dept.

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.)"

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  1. Re:Tax Break? by wdr1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rumor spreads that Google is helping an open source project & Slashdot falls over with praise.

    Yahoo helps open source & the first question is "Hey, are they cookin' the books?"

    Go figure.

    -Bill

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