Posts Tagged ‘open source’
India, China not giving enough back to open source?
Apparently, Indian and Chinese programmers are not contributing enough to the open source process. That’s what Dana Blankenhorn says in a recent blog post.
He thinks that the “proprietary attitude toward improvements which open source fights so hard ” remains ingrained in both these countries.
Microsoft goes the Apache way?
Microsoft has picked up a Platinum Sponsorship in the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Sam Ramji, Director, Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft posted this on his blog at port 25, Microsoft’s open source community portal.
While I really don’t know what this means for Microsoft or Apache, it has surely resulted in Microsoft getting enshrined in the ASF’s “Thanks” page.
it sure is a long way from the “Apache vs IIS” days.
There are a couple of other interesting things highlighted in the post. It mentions Microsoft’s first code contribution to the PHP community via a patch to ADOdb that enables SQL Server support, and, some protocols being moved into the Open Specification Promise (OSP).
