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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. Go Yahoo by cumin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Go Yahoo by Temporal · · Score: 5, Informative

      Err... It's great of Yahoo to do this and all, but as others have pointed out, Google was already a platinum sponsor of Apache, and until now was the only platinum sponsor.

      Google also contributes directly to the Linux kernel, GCC, Mozilla, and many other projects, funds tons of open source development via the Summer of Code program, releases many of its own projects open source (from small things like its Java collections framework to huge things like Android), provides free hosting for open source projects, etc.

      Not trying to diminish Yahoo's contributions -- they release plenty of code too -- but just saying that you can hardly claim Google doesn't do enough for OSS.

    2. Re:Go Yahoo by wannabgeek · · Score: 5, Informative

      You mean something like this http://search.yahoo.com/ ?

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  2. Yes, Apache is a legal US charity (Re:Tax Break?) by jaaron · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  3. Re:Tax Break? by jaaron · · Score: 5, Informative

    We have incorporated. Please see my other comment. Apache is a legal US charity.

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  4. 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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