Microsoft Pays for a More Microsoft-Obedient Apache

at 5:29 am by Roy Schestowitz Like Steve Ballmer explicitly said a year ago, they want all open source on top of Microsoft Windows A very mixed announcement (positive plus negative) has just left many people baffled, but a discussion about this has already begun in the comments (we saw coming half a year ago). Some observers may think that Microsoft has suddenly become charity investing in its competitors. Well, Microsoft is a business — one with a a history of ruthlessness and unimaginable levels of deception, one might add. “Microsoft had gamed Netcraft figures using an agreement with GoDaddy (for parked domains).”Why do people think that Microsoft paid Apache? What did people write about )? It was intended to optimise the software for Windows, at GNU/Linux’ expense. They have already done the same thing with Zend, for PHP... [read full story]