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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. Cliche? by Johnny_Law · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Would, "It's a trap", be too cliche?

  2. Re:A better sponsorship by bsDaemon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Couldn't the same argument be used in reverse -- quit developing for KDE/GNOME, Windows already dominates, develop for that?

    Oh, that's right -- monoculture is ok so long as its your monoculture.

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

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

  4. Re:A better sponsorship by dedazo · · Score: 5, Informative

    I sure as hell hope not, I cannot begin to list all the advantages of running IIS+.NET on Server 2003 over [insert language] and mod_whatever on Apache. Having to muck around with httpd.conf and chmod wouldn't exactly be an improvement over their current stack, especially for intra-corp applications.

    (I realize the above paragraph might hurt some fanboys - sorry. You can have your platform, I recognize its strengths. Just leave mine alone)

    This is probably part of Microsoft's push to make things like PHP and Ruby work better on Windows. After all, they'd rather you run WAMP than LAMP. They've been engaged with Zend on the FastGCI implementation for IIS that makes PHP so much better on Windows. I don't think they see IIS as some sacred cow to be protected. Again, as long as you're running everything on Windows Server =)

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  5. 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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