[Typo3] has microsoft hacked the site or what ?

Andreas Stoeffer ars at edugenta.de
Fri Apr 1 18:53:57 CEST 2005


Christian Trabold wrote:
> 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
My Heartbeat is at 180 ;-)

sunny greetings andreas



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