Microsoft Funds Apache

Jul 28, 2008, 18:00 (5 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Stephen Shankland)

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"The Apache License, though, lets programmers take software and combine it with proprietary software in any way, with no obligation to share. That's how IBM, for example, uses the Apache Web server software in its proprietary WebSphere product.

"For Microsoft, that means Apache's projects can be used within Microsoft. And there are some that could be of interest.""

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