2010/6/25 Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>

>
> their open source lab is huge - possibly the best funded lab for open
> source
> in the world. But unfortunately all the open source work is done using
> proprietary tools.


Sadly, yes :(  But they also seem to be funding some open source projects
outside of Microsoft. Like Apache, it says on the site that they are the
platinum sponsors for the Apache project !! I don't quite understand why
they would fund a direct competitor (IIS). Intriguing..

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/07/microsoft-to-sponsor-of-the-apache-software-foundation.ars

Cheers,
Yogesh Girikumar
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