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Microsoft Puts SourceForge Clone Into Beta

Posted by timothy on from the interesting-license-discussion dept.

M$ Mole writes "Microsoft is working hard to build their .NET community and has released the beta of an online software project management site. The service being provided is very similar to SF.net, but problems are arising around Microsoft's license, which (originally) granted all rights to the software place on the server to Microsoft. MS has back-pedaled a bit since their 'beta' license and is working on a new, more "acceptable" license."

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  1. This may be a little off topic... by nemesisj · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    But it kind of cheezes me how Sourceforge projects are REQUIRED to be open source. I wish they'd allow people who want to do closed source stuff on there to pay a low monthly fee or something. Just a thought.

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  2. Re:Top 10 projects on gotdotnet! by dpt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There won't need to be a BSOD generator, as you get that free with every copy of Windows.

    However, perhaps an open-source version would be welcome, as then we could make *sure* that our BSODs happened correctly and as expected, ensure corruption of important OS files, and are definitely unpredictable (ie. truly random), and so forth.

    [If you're a Windows weenie or MS shill considering replying, "It's stable, it's secure, it's efficient, you need to use it the *right* way and not upset it (ie it's fragile), blah, blah, fucking blah", please don't bother]

  3. Re:christ this comment is overrated by teamhasnoi · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You be quiet, icon designer!