[Typo3] has microsoft hacked the site or what ?

[Ralf Mertes]

The TYPO3 association led by Kasper Skårhøj has decided to sell the 
copyright of the popluar CMS project to Microsoft. Everything published 
so far under GPL will stay that way, but all upcoming development, 
inlcluding the soon to be published version 3.8.0, will be under a new 
license, which is
yet to be verified.

Leading developers has signed a contract with the new owners stating 
that they will not continue the development of TYPO3 under any open 
source license.

TYPO3 is to be merged with existing CMS software from Microsoft (see 
www.microsoft.com/cmserver/default.aspx) and to be ported to the .net 
platform.

Microsoft intents to buy the rigths of a number of popular extensions as 
well.

More information as well as an official statement from chief developer 
Kasper Skårhøj will be announced within the next week.