This post will discuss the major contributions from Microsoft to open source, because although many unbelievers do not accept Microsoft is considered a "platinum sponsor" of many open source projects.
Here I present a short list of projects that Microsoft supports:
- is one of the main contributors to the Apache Software Foundation and donating $ 100,000 per year.
- One of the decisive contributions of Microsoft to the Open Source community is supported HBAs, an important part of the Hadoop project Apache . Bing Hbase is used by the Microsoft search engine, the code of its search engine.
- actively contributes to developing PHP code that allows this system to function more efficiently under the various versions of Windows and interacting properly with the Microsoft SQL Server.
- Microsoft also contributes to the incubator project Stonehenge Apache Foundation to provide platform interoperability.
- has also subsidized the development of an NFS client for Windows Open Source licensed from the University of Michigan.
- The Codeplex open source repository , discussed a little more in an upcoming post, has been developed by Microsoft and is already hosting more than 13,000 projects.
- There is even an open source community within Microsoft's own TechNet, the called Port 25 .
- Since 2006, Microsoft collaborates with Novell to integrate Windows and Linux with contributions such as participation in the Mono project , an Open Source implementation. NET platform.
- Microsoft even participated in the Linux kernel providing some 20,000 lines of code to integrate with Hyper-V components.
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