:Bruce Perens: Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?
Bruce Perens: Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle? Aug 3, 2008, 18 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (5987 reads) (Other stories by Bruce Perens)
"But Microsoft can still influence how things go from here on. If they have to live with open source, the Apache project is Microsoft's preferred direction. Apache doesn't use the dreaded GPL and its enforced sharing of source-code. Instead, the Apache license is practically a no-strings gift, with a weak provision against patent lawsuits as its most relevant term. Microsoft can take Apache software and embrace and enhance, providing their own versions of the project's software with engineered incompatibility and no available source, just as they forced incompatibility into the Web by installing IE with every Windows upgrade."
