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?

Read full story at
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3762786/Bruce+Perens:+Microsoft+and+Apache+-+Whats+the+Angle?.htm

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