Microsoft Joined by AOL in Outercurve Support
May 16, 2012
AOL is joining Microsoft in its open source ways. ZDNet reports, “AOL Joins Microsoft as Sponsor of Outercurve Foundation.” Outercurve facilitates the exchange of code between the open source community and corporations. It has been supported by Microsoft since that company launched it in 2009 (under the original name CodePlex Foundation), and has now attracted the backing of AOL. Apparently, the move was easier than setting up their own foundation. Mary Jo Foley writes:
“According to a blog post, AOL is becoming a sponsor so it can transfer its internal open-source projects to the Foundation, ‘which eliminates the complexity of creating, funding and managing a separate foundation,’ in the words of Erynn Petersen, AOL SVP of Paid Services Engineering. ‘Outercurve sponsorship also will make it simpler for our partners to contribute to AOL-sponsored open source projects,’ Petersen added.”
Foley asked whether the choice had anything to do with last month’s sale of hundreds of AOL patents to Microsoft, and was assured there’s no connection. (By the way, Microsoft is reselling a number of these patents to Facebook. Interesting.)
A 501c(6) non-profit , the Outercurve Foundation is resolved to complement other open source foundations rather than compete with them. It provides organizations with details like software IP management and project development governance in order to encourage collaboration and spur faster results.
Cynthia Murrell, May 16, 2012
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