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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. Re:This is nearly a month old! by will_die · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Don't forget that gotdotnet is owned and operated by microsoft. Of course the head developer is going to

  2. Re:Not much different than SourceForge by Salsaman · · Score: 2, Redundant
    You understand how much temptation there would be to pull a project if it were something like a "free" as in beer Office clone?

    Heh, that would be funny. Imagine if someone ported Open Office to .net, and put it on the MS site