On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 10:18 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:04 AM, harrismh777 <harrismh...@charter.net> wrote: > > Not so fast there, Steve. If they [Microsoft] are paying anything > > (unsubstantiated, unknowable) to Python, Apache, or (Linux, whatever you > > mean by that term...) there are only two motives: > > http://www.python.org/psf/ - Microsoft is listed. I would assume one > does not become a "sponsor member" without paying money (or a whole > lot of something that translates to money, like staff hours). > > http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html - again, Microsoft is > listed (in the top category, "Platinum Sponsors"). > > Feel free to continue discussing the merits of these donations, but it > is definitely substantiable and knowable. Microsoft has money, and > they're prepared to spend it on what they believe in. (My view is that > they believe in positive PR more than they believe in Python or Apache > or whatever.) > > Chris Angelico
I'm sure they're using both products for in-house stuff. Who isn't? ^_^ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list