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Microsoft Donates Code To Apache's "Stonehenge" Project

Posted by timothy on from the but-one-dimensional-villains-are-easier-to-comprehend dept.

dp619 writes "Several months after joining the Apache Foundation, Microsoft has made its first code contribution to an Apache project. The project, known as Stonehenge, is made up of companies and developers seeking to test the interoperability of Web standards implementations."Reader Da Massive adds a link to coverage at Computer World.

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  1. Re:I don't get it... by b4dc0d3r · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's a lot easier to fix IE than to ditch IE and shoehorn Gecko/Webkit into the IE programming model. If developers miss their COM objects, there will be riots in the street. When I say easier, I mean for a company that would have to throw away a huge investment as well as have many people around who know so much about a product that doesn't behave like that any more. Plus, not invented here.

  2. Re:Other notable contribution by batkiwi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It allows the apache developers to do compatability testing on MS os's without having to go to the store and buy a copy of each OS for each developer.

  3. Re:You did it wrong. by bdelacretaz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I do believe "Embrace" was covered when Microsoft joined the Apache foundation....

    Microsoft did *not* join the Apache Software Foundation, companies cannot be members in any shape or form. I have written about that before at http://grep.codeconsult.ch/2008/07/26/hey-el-reg-microsoft-is-not-becoming-an-asf-member/