Microsoft Gives $100,000 to Apache
By
Humphrey Cheung,
published on July 28, 2008 at 8:10 AM
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Microsoft, Apache, Donation | Themes: Business
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Microsoft, Apache, Donation | Themes: Business
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Redmond (WA) - Microsoft has donated $100,000 to the Apache Software Foundation. The annual investment puts the company on equal footing as Yahoo and Google in terms of Apache monetary support and was praised by foundation officials. Microsoft also released several communications protocols under their open source initiative which promises that developers will never be sued for using the code.
In the web server arena, Microsoft has been trying to catch up to the free Apache program for years. Apache runs approximately 49.12% of all web servers while Microsoft’s IIS platform runs 35.39%.
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HA! Their whole open source initiative started right after the EU beat them down for not letting anything out and right before some major ISO decision...I think on their open standards. That and open source groups have been tearing apart the so called open source promise due to all of its holes. This is all a PR stunt to turn that EU rape into good.
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4983942450.html