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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:How very microsoftonian by Cutriss · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not too familiar with the Linux community, but seeing as how I develop 3rd-party software for Microsoft products (which will be open-sourced upon completion), and I'm 22, is it true that most Linux developers are really 13? Linus Torvalds looks *so* much older than that!

    And that poor, poor Ricky Stallman...He's way too young to have facial hair like that...

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    "Mod, mod, mod...and another troll bites the dust."
  2. Meanwhile, back at the ranch by Wonko42 · · Score: 1, Troll
    In other news, Lindows, Mandrake, Red Hat, and other Linux distributions are still doing their best to be Microsoft Windows clones.

    Give me a break. If that site is a SourceForge clone, then this site is a Slashdot clone.

  3. Re:This is nearly a month old! by GiorgioG · · Score: 0, Troll

    Anyway, I'm surprised it's taken this long for this to hit /., usually anti-MS news is posted quickly, and the good stuff, like the release of Visual Studio .NET, is ignored.

    Another fine example of why I should (and have started to) stop reading /. (I was part of the discussion on the whole licensing issue and that was at least a couple of weeks ago (and I came in rather late in the discussion.))Anyway, there's as much shit-slinging in the OSS camp as there is in microsoft's camp. No matter which side you choose you're going wind up smelling like shit.

  4. gotdotnet.co.uk running ... Linux by azaroth42 · · Score: 2, Troll
    Interesting. According to netcraft, the UK version is running Linux!

    Operating System and Web Server for www.gotdotnet.co.uk On

    The site www.gotdotnet.co.uk is running Apache/1.3.23 (Trustix Secure Linux/Linux) PHP/4.0.6 on Linux.


    -- Azaroth