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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. How will this turn out? by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only we had some history of technical partnerships with Microsoft to use as a guide.

    1. Re:How will this turn out? by davester666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      FTA: "The project, known as Stonehenge, is made up of companies and developers seeking to test the interoperability of Web standards implementations"

      The first thing I thought of when I read this, is that Microsoft updated the project so it was compatible with IE (not making the project more standards compliant, but that it made IE appear to be standards compliant).

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    2. Re:How will this turn out? by Trails · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yup, and I've made this is a point I've made in the past. I personally believe that while MS is generally evil, and Ballmer rates slightly below Dick Cheney on the evil intentions scale (decidedly lower on the actual evil scale due to Ballmer's patented apeish idiocy), Chris Wilson, program manager for IE, is trying to do The Right Thing.

      Personally I think he gets away with it only because Ballmer hasn't noticed.

  2. Good luck with that by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Funny

    Embrace - you are here.
    Extend
    Extinguish

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  3. Other notable contribution by wawannem · · Score: 5, Informative

    Although it is nice to see code donated, they made a much bigger contribution earlier allowing all apache committers access to MSDN. This is full d/l access to all of their products for testing, etc.

  4. Numerous factual errors in article and summary by thehossman · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Several months after joining the Apache Foundation, Microsoft has made its first code contribution to an Apache project."

    Corporations can not join the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Microsoft became a "sponsor" of the ASF last summer, but only individual people can join the ASF.

    This is also not the first time Microsoft has contributed code to an Apache project, pulling one quick example out of google...

    http://port25.technet.com/archive/2008/10/14/microsoft-s-powerset-team-resumes-hbase-contributions.aspx

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  5. What a choice for the name by icejai · · Score: 5, Funny

    Project Stonehenge!

    Abstract:
    Nobody will know why something so large and simple was created, what it's good for, how it's supposed to be used. It will face complete abandonment and isolation, only to be admired and appreciated by a handful of people once a year.

    I keed I keed!