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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.)"

4 of 110 comments (clear)

  1. Hah! That's NOTHING! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Today my application got accepted to become a 4chan GOLD ACCOUNT holder. I'd like to see yahoo try to get one of THOSE!

    In before newfags yelling "rule 1 & 2" -those only apply to /i/invasions, gaiafags!

  2. Re:zonk is a homo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm going to put this in for my GNAA Corporate application form: http://www.animenfo.com/irc/cgi-gnaa//
    (I wish i knew how to make the link work when you click GNAA and not show the full url for appearance sake)

  3. eat it yahoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck Yahoo. Look at all these paid posters. Yahoo sucks!

  4. Re:IMPORTANT SLASHDOT QUESTION by somersault · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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