[Sheflug] Yahoo Donated the Source Code for its Traffic Server Software to the Apache Software Foundation

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Oh.. I didn't expect this to happen any time soon...

" In a move that resembles a major food vendor giving away its prize 
recipe -- minus the secret sauce -- to all of its customers and 
competitors, Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) on Monday donated the source code 
for its Traffic Server software to the Apache Software Foundation 
through the Apache Incubator Project.  Yahoo hopes to grow a community 
of product users who return to use the full recipe rather than trying 
to make the recipe work on their own. Yahoo intends to build a robust 
community of developers around the open source Traffic Server, the 
company said.  The release of the Traffic Server code to the open source 
community marks the second time in five months that Yahoo made a 
significant contribution to the FOSS world. "

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/68553.html

-- 
Richard

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