Microsoft to subborn subversion of the Apache Software Foundation (ars technica)

It's be /several/ years since I tried Apache on Windows (assuming this is about the web server
and not just in general), and it run and work, but 'work' isn't all there is to
interoperability. The web server integrating nicely with Windows' other tools, like the
service manager (iirc, this didn't work well when I tried it) and anything else like that can
also help. 'Interoperability' could also be a GUI configuration system that integrates with
the Administrative Tools on Windows, or using some of Vista's security features.

If you put aside Microsoft's long history of hidden-agendas and duplicity, that statement
could be perfectly reasonable. Microsoft could make the changes themselves, but spending 100k
on having on of their developers do the work might scare some of Microsoft's lawyers/PR
people, but just dropping 100k on the ASF would alleviate some of their fears while still
helping to achieve their (hopefully positive) goals.

Of course since this is Microsoft you have keep a close eye on anything they do, but simply
being Microsoft doesn't *require* everything they do to be evil for all time.