{"id":323,"date":"2008-07-27T19:19:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T19:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/07\/27\/microsoft-to-sponsor-the-apache-software-foundation.aspx"},"modified":"2008-07-27T19:19:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T19:19:44","slug":"microsoft-to-sponsor-the-apache-software-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to sponsor the Apache Software Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at the OSCON open source software convention, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) got an unexpected new sponsor: Microsoft. The Redmond software giant, which will contribute $100,000 annually to the ASF, joins Google and Yahoo as a platinum sponsor of Apache development.  <\/p>\n<h5>The ASF is a nonprofit group that exerts loose organizational guidance role over a sprawling ecosystem of autonomously managed software projects, including the Apache web server and a host of libraries, frameworks, toolkits, and programs. The culture of the ASF is built upon what they call the &#8220;Apache Way,&#8221; a philosophy of consensus-based collaborative stewardship and volunteerism. <\/h5>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080725-microsoft-to-sponsor-of-the-apache-software-foundation.html\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080725-microsoft-to-sponsor-of-the-apache-software-foundation.html\">http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080725-microsoft-to-sponsor-of-the-apache-software-foundation.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at the OSCON open source software convention, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) got an unexpected new sponsor: Microsoft. The Redmond software giant, which will contribute $100,000 annually to the ASF, joins Google and Yahoo as a platinum sponsor of Apache development. The ASF is a nonprofit group that exerts loose organizational guidance role over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}