Microsoft supports open source Apache
Beware of Voles bearing gifts
MICROSOFT wowed the open-source community when it bestowed a gracious US$100,000 donation to the Apache Software Corporation.
The Redmond giant also noted that it was contributing code to support a project named ADOdb, which allows PHP-based applications to communicate with a wide variety of databases. In addition, Microsoft committed to offer royalty-free specifications for Windows Server and .NET Framework protocols.
The company already participates in an open-source project nicknamed RubySpec, which hopes to write a publishable specification for the Ruby programming language used in its .NET programming framework.
The Vole began to change its approach towards the open-source community in 2007, when it opened up various APIs to third-party use and pledged increased transparency in software development. µ
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Brilliant
The Fox has his foot in the hen house just a bit further.Too Good to be true.
You know what they say, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Anything M$ does for "the good of human kind" I will always look for they hidden agenda.RIIIIIIGHT! We NEED MS!!???!!
To allow MS in among open source, is to allow the very ones whose stated mission is conquest! by any means. I have no desire to sound alarmist. But this company will Conquer, if it takes 50 years. Or longer. They want a hand in your business, ( recall them attempting to bankroll the latest SCO debacle??) and to be able to call the shots ( RULE, or CONTROL) at all costs.You must remember....... These people are FOR REAL.
I'd be willing to do anything within reason to keep these corporate warmongers away from our beloved Linux/ BSD / Open Sauce table.
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watMicrosoft at it again
Embrace, Extend and Extinguish