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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. MS license by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All your code are belong to us.

  2. Re:Hmmm... by ekephart · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    err... collaborate

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  3. Re:This could be good by Robotech_Master · · Score: 3, Offtopic
    This article (registration, blah blah) seems to disagree.
    Does Slashdot, in fact, make money? Its owners say, yes, sort of. The site is owned by Open Source Development Network Inc., a subsidiary of the VA Software Corporation. Open Source runs a number of technology-related Web sites and an online store, ThinkGeek.

    Richard French, senior vice president and general manager for Open Source, declined to break out the income of any one component of the company, except to say, "Slashdot works from a cost point of view and from a revenue perspective."

    In fact, he acknowledged, "If you took any one of them on their own, probably none of them would be profitable," he said of Open Source's various Web sites.

    But because many of the sites use the same hardy, low-maintenance software developed by Mr. Malda and his team, and because the Internet resources are pooled, the company says it is able to squeeze out a profit from the cluster, and makes further profits from sites that it sets up for businesses.
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  4. Re:Ugh by clifforch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please don't mod, reply instead

    Thats not so funny right now
    despite dubya's efforts the other hemisphere has just suffered a major atrocity. And some of us believe in justice for all.

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  5. Re:Ugh by clifforch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm tired of people invoking terrorism as a throwaway comparison for anything bad, when it represents something far worse in reality.

    eeek. I think I replied to the wrong post,
    I hope you aren't affected by the events in bali.

    Cliff

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  6. Re:Got Wot? by Associate · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You stole that sig from my tshirt. You bastard!

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  7. Ugly by LuYu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That is quite possibly the ugliest website I have ever seen.

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  8. Re:How very microsoftonian by scot4875 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Man, about 2 years ago when I was still a college sophomore, my boss told me "we need an inventory database. It has to be done using ASP and SQL Server 7." (I was a sysadmin at the time -- with absolutely no web programming experience)

    I gritted my teeth, hit Google, fired up InterDev, found asp101, and by the end of the night I had a proof-of-concept 1-table web inventory system up and running. Took me a couple more weeks to get the rest fleshed out.

    Sounds like you're just so resistant to try anything new that you're making it harder on yourself than it really is.

    --Jeremy

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  9. Re:Got Wot? by Safety+Cap · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Nah, I stole it from reg.humor; it was posted by Bear, so go blame him. :)

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