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

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

Posted Aug 1, 2008 22:25 UTC (Fri) by davidw (subscriber, #947)
In reply to: Bruce Perens: Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle? (IT Management) by BrucePerens
Parent article: Bruce Perens: Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle? (IT Management)

They only way that they can become members is by going through the same process as everyone
else - it's not that different from Debian, although it's more of a "do-ocracy".  Part of the
"process" is doing a lot for open source projects, so if Microsoft people actually start
contributing a lot to open source projects... great.  The risk that they will somehow
numerically overwhelm the ASF strikes me as very slight indeed.


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

Posted Aug 1, 2008 22:39 UTC (Fri) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

I'm not concerned about their technical people on the project. More with what they do with Apache software outside of the project: in the market, with regulators, etc.

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