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Re: Apache, Eclipse, ... Why do they do this?

Date	2014-07-10 12:28 -0400
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Apache, Eclipse, ... Why do they do this?
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On 7/10/2014 10:23 AM, jebblue wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 12:27:17 +0200, Josip Almasi wrote:
>> On 07/04/2014 03:28 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>>     Apache and the Eclipse Foundation work to create libraries
>>>     and software, and then they give it to you for free. Why are
>>>     they doing this?
>>
>> Why not?
>>
>>> Several parties pay for them, for example
>>>     IBM supports Eclipse (for example, in 2001, they supported
>>>     Eclipse with 40 million USD), why do they do this?
>>
>> ... as did google, yahoo, microsoft, and everybody who is anybody:
>> http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html
>
> It surprises me to see Microsoft on that thanks list.

MS has been releasing lots of open source the last
few years.

Including most of ASP.NET.

Arne

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Re: Apache, Eclipse, ... Why do they do this? Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-07-04 12:27 +0200
  Re: Apache, Eclipse, ... Why do they do this? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-07-04 23:09 -0400
  Re: Apache, Eclipse, ... Why do they do this? jebblue <n@n.nnn> - 2014-07-10 09:23 -0500
    Re: Apache, Eclipse, ... Why do they do this? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-07-10 12:28 -0400

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