Microsoft cleared to commit code to Apache
Few will have noticed, but Microsoft's Jim Kellerman just announced that he and a Microsoft colleague "been cleared to contribute patches again" to Apache, and specifically to the Hadoop project.
This is great news for Microsoft, and I think for open source generally. It means that Microsoft just became an open-source insider and may find it more difficult to sling mud as an open-source outsider in the future.
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Windows-only extensions?
They earn the freedom to add Windows-only extensions, just as they made patches for SQL Server around the time of their Apache announcement.