On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:04 AM, harrismh777 <harrismh...@charter.net> wrote: > Not so fast there, Steve. If they [Microsoft] are paying anything > (unsubstantiated, unknowable) to Python, Apache, or (Linux, whatever you > mean by that term...) there are only two motives:
http://www.python.org/psf/ - Microsoft is listed. I would assume one does not become a "sponsor member" without paying money (or a whole lot of something that translates to money, like staff hours). http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html - again, Microsoft is listed (in the top category, "Platinum Sponsors"). Feel free to continue discussing the merits of these donations, but it is definitely substantiable and knowable. Microsoft has money, and they're prepared to spend it on what they believe in. (My view is that they believe in positive PR more than they believe in Python or Apache or whatever.) Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
