Bruce Perens: Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle? (IT Management)

Bruce Perens looks at Microsoft's sponsorship of 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? "

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