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Microsoft Backs Apache and Open Source

by Vivek Gite on July 28, 2008 · 9 comments

In the past Microsoft has been hostile to the open source movement. But At OSCON, Microsoft announced their sponsorship of “The Apache Software Foundation”, joining Google and Yahoo! at Platinum level.

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Download sun java GPL’d source code

by Vivek Gite on November 13, 2006 · 0 comments

Yet another victory for Open Source software! Woot!! First Solaris (OpenSolaris) and OpenOffice.org was made open source and now Java. Thanks to Linux (other open source oses) and open source movement. Sun Microsystems Inc. said on Monday that it will make its Java software available for free to the open-source community, though it will continue [...]

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