Bruce Perens on Microsoft Sponsoring Apache:
For a decade, Microsoft was open source’s worst enemy, combating it at every turn. But last week Microsoft joined the Apache open source project as a platinum sponsor, promising to put $100,000 per year into a project that beats its own IIS (Internet Information Services) in the market. Microsoft also made some of their patents available for use in GPL software like Linux without a royalty.
Has Redmond given up the fight? Or is this just their latest strategy?
My answer is that this is Microsoft under Ray Ozzie. The company will evolve to be an organization that grows collaboratively with the IT community, and that includes not just playing nice but actively being a part of big open source projects. Its not about IIS vs Apache.
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