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Microsoft Sponsors Apache Software Foundation

Posted by timothy on from the it-has-an-excellent-license-after-all dept.

gbjbaanb writes "Ars Technica reports that Microsoft is to sponsor the Apache Foundation to the tune of $100k. From the article: 'I asked him if this could possibly be the beginning of a broader initiative by Microsoft to increase Apache compatibility with .NET web development technologies, but he says it's still too early to guess Microsoft's future plans for Apache participation. ... He doesn't anticipate a confrontational response from the developers working on individual Apache projects ... The response of the broader open source software community, however, is harder to predict.' (In related news, MS also intends to participate in the RubySpec project.)"

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  1. Apache 2.4 by Ynot_82 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apache 2.4 release notes
    new modules:
    mod_drm
    mod_ooxml
    mod_reject-firefox

  2. Re:A better sponsorship by Foofoobar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well to use an analogy, if Apache and IIS were car companies, one is manufacturing cars that get 200 MPG, with keyless entry security systems that are highly customizable and can be purchased for $10. The other company makes a car that runs on baby kittens, can be hijacked everytime you go under 30 MPH (and whose top speed is 35 MPH) and can be purchased for $100,000.

    Who do you think deserves the market in this case?

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  3. Re:A better sponsorship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I cannot begin to list all the advantages of running IIS+.NET on Server 2003 over [insert language] and mod_whatever on Apache.

    Yeah, I can't list any advantages, either.