OT: (maybe): article [at computerworld.com] about Microsoft [and the] "open-source community"

[Mike Schwartz]

article title: "Microsoft reverses course, becomes more open to
open-source community"
This article
(see "http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Software&articleId=331289&taxonomyId=18")
mentions that "Microsoft Corp. bought Powerset Inc. in July", and
discusses what that might mean for the future.
(apparently, Powerset used to [and -- I guess -- still does]
contribute open-source code [and maybe other help] to [quote:] "the
Apache Software Foundation's Hadoop project.").
My 0.02:
When allowing any company -- who "might" have some ulterior motives --
to "contribute code to" (and, otherwise "influence") any open-source
project, it seems logical that the people who care about the project,
might want to be extra careful about what changes they allow from that
source.
--
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org