On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Danese Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all, Apache got over dealing with proximity to MSFT for pragmatic > reasons a long time ago. Covalent is an example of a company that sold > Apache-based products to Windows customers. I would say that nobody at > Apache thinks Microsoft is somehow having a religious conversion and aren't > evil anymore (just as very few of us believe that Google isn't evil...sorry > Charles). Publicly traded US Corporations are inherently evil...all of them > are...because by design they exist to pursue profit over all else. > > Apache is a pragmatic group and we tend to take balanced actions. We took > money from Google, why not from Microsoft? Also, we have a long history of > taking code from big corps (which is in some ways more fraught with peril > than taking money)...
Danese, The ASF's pragmatic stance is well known -- I tend agree with it. I'm more interested in understanding what's going on inside MS. Like it or not, MS is big and influential -- it's probably useful to understand what their motivations are. Personally, I don't think corporations are evil -- even MS. They're just amoral. They may just happen to have common (or opposing) goals with me in pursuit of their profits. I just need to know whether to step out of the way or hitch a ride. -- b
