20 years ago, Microsoft made a large donation to the Apache foundation. I declared that it would be the end of innovation in httpd. Microsoft, at the time, wa

20 years ago, Microsoft made a large donation to the Apache foundation. I declared that it would be the end of innovation in httpd. Microsoft, at the time, was making big moves in IIS in support of then-new ASP.NET web framework. Although there was so much that could have been done to improve the DX/UX of Apache httpd, it stopped moving ahead, and the OSS community fragmented into nginx, lighttpd and others - often losing velocity because of the need to not only achieve feature parity with what httpd offered already, but also the slew of CVEs security issues that cropped up again and again as the Internet grew exponentially during that period as more people went from dialup to broadband, then into mobile.