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Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?

Posted by Soulskill on from the answer-in-radians-please dept.

A week ago, we discussed Microsoft's contribution to the Apache Foundation. Now, Bruce Perens has written an analysis "exploring the new relationship of Microsoft and the Apache project, how it works as an anti-Linux move on Microsoft's part, and what some of the Open Sourcers are going to do about having Microsoft as a rather untrustworthy partner." In particular, he notes: "...Microsoft can still influence how things go from here on. If they have to live with open source, the Apache project is Microsoft's preferred direction. Apache doesn't use the dreaded GPL and its enforced sharing of source-code. Instead, the Apache license is practically a no-strings gift, with a weak provision against patent lawsuits as its most relevant term. Microsoft can take Apache software and embrace and enhance, providing their own versions of the project's software with engineered incompatibility and no available source, just as they forced incompatibility into the Web by installing IE with every Windows upgrade."

10 of 433 comments (clear)

  1. extend by hey · · Score: 2, Funny

    and extinguish

  2. Re:Honestly? by uassholes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fan boy.

  3. Re:What's the angle? by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure if you're referring to Bruce, Microsoft, Apache, or Slashdot.

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  4. Re:This is why I love Microsoft by master5o1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Life is like a boxset of Movies, We have the good guys, and the bad guys, and the recurring villain, Microsoft.

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  5. Re:Relief? by rebelcan · · Score: 5, Funny

    The room you are in is dark.

    You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

    However, as you are already dead from lack of oxygen, you don't really mind all that much.

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  6. Re:Bruce Perens link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you get a lot of trollcalls by doing this?

    Kind of thinking of the midnight phone boys things the entire Lockwood family was caught up in.

  7. Re:Bruce Perens link by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Funny

    No. A phone call is a closer contact than most trolls can handle emotionally. Most of them can't even sign their name in a textual communication.

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  8. Yeowza by Gary+W.+Longsine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bruce Perens is the Chuck Norris of the geek world. He doesn't age. He recompiles time.

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  9. Re:Angle of teh dangle by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 4, Funny
    I told the reporter from Redmond Journal yesterday that Microsoft was like someone who pisses on your front door and then knocks and asks nicely to come in to your party.

    I don't think he's going to print that :-)

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  10. Re:Relief by Acapulco · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who knows? Maybe he's The One...

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