[Typo3] has microsoft hacked the site or what ?

[Lars Houmark]

It is the 1. of April, remember? ;)

/Lars Houmark

"Ralf Mertes" <info at typo3saar.de> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1.1112371160.1786.typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de...
> 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.