[Typo3] has microsoft hacked the site or what ?

[Christian Trabold]

Dear Ralf,

> 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.

I wish you a happy new month! ;)


Regards

Christian