Microsoft has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation, one of open-source software’s biggest supporters.
“Microsoft is becoming a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation [ASF]. This sponsorship will enable the ASF to pay administrators and other support staff so that ASF developers can focus on writing great software,” said Sam Ramji, senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft. He announced the move on Friday in a speech at the Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. Ramji also noted Microsoft’s support of Apache on the software company’s Port 25 blog .
Some within Microsoft have, for years, been making various encouraging sounds about open-source software, even though others have been far more disparaging. The company has no apparent desire to let the programming world have its way with Windows, as it can with Linux, but Microsoft has been making some efforts in certain circles.
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