Tag archive: Apache

Apache-extras.org provides a home for projects that are unable to, or do not wish to, conform to the ASF's requirements relating to intellectual property, license use and community management, but still want to have a relationship with Apache. As projects on the new Google-hosted service will not be managed by The Apache Software Foundation, one of the key difference is that participants may use whatever license and project management… Read More

The times they are certainly a-changin’. Microsoft, which has defended its code so fiercely, has becomes a platinum sponsor of the open source Apache Software Foundation, and has also agreed to open up some of its comms software to developers. The announcement was made by Sam Ramji, a director of Microsoft’s platform strategy, at the Open Source Convention, according to the BBC. Although the amount Redmond’s finest has… Read More