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Microsoft WiX Code Released to SourceForge.Net
nberardi writes "On Monday, April 5, 2004, as part of the Shared Source Initiative, Microsoft released the source code for the Windows Installer XML (WiX) developer tool to SourceForge under the IBM Common Public License or CPL. The WiX project is the first Shared Source Initiative to go "public" on Source Forge rather than a Microsoft site. It is also the first to use an externally created Open Source license. Microsoft supports the idea that a software developer should be free to choose how they license their work and for the goals of WiX, the CPL was the right fit. Is this another ploy from Microsoft to not look like the bad guy, or do you think they are embracing on the Open Source movement?" Slashdot and SourceForge are both part of OSDN.
I thought April 1st was 4 days ago?!
Someone send Lucifer some mittens and one of those funky Russian hats... Must be mighty cold down there right now...
Hate me!
...join them... ... and attack later from the inside...(maybe?)
errera hunamum ets
OTOH, I expect several hundred postings, all the rough equivalent of:
If MS does morph into a benevolent monopoly like AT&T of old, should we break it up just for market's sake?
Nah, just for the sake of nostalgia.
They should change that name especially for Germany. Because in German "Wix" sounds like "Wichsen" which means to jerk off. So noone will take this serious.
How about adding some more Links to the project page?
They released the Win2k source some time ago after all, remember?
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
I not sure what's worse, the fact that you took the time to write such a long satirical post, or that you actually were moderated Informative for a while.
kc8apf
Bill Gates: Your friends up there at the sanctuary website [indicates sourceforge] are falling into a trap.
Linus reacts. Bill Gates notes it
Bill Gates: As is your open source community
Bill Gates: It was I who allowed the Open Source Community to know the source code of Windows Installer XML (WiX) developer tool. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best Coders awaits them.
Linus' look darts from Bill Gates to Steve Ballmer and, finally, to the Tablet PC in Bill Gates hand.
Bill Gates: Oh...I'm afraid the Trusted Computing Architecture will be quite operational when your friends arrive.
To be continued
(Quoting from Rob Mensching's blog) ....the documentation leaves much to be desired.
First of all, I would say that the WiX toolset is pretty close to Beta2 quality....
Yup. Sounds like most open source projects I know!
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Has anyone here who's posting actually downloaded it and tried it yet?
Come on now, most slashdotters don't even manage to read the article, let alone read, download, extract, compile and execute the article. I think you're pissing into the wind with this one.
Jedidiah.
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I wanted to moderate you as -1 overrated. But the funny option isn't avalable when meta moderating. And THAT would be funny.
Linus: NOOOOOooOOOOoooOOOoooOOOooOOooooo........
but for some reason he thinks that his opinions should be pushed onto everybody else
He acts like he runs the place.
"Wixen" is the German slang word for "masturbate". The prefix "wix" is used to devaluate something. "The WiX code" means something like "the f*cking code".
I wonder what the open source landscape would be like if Microsoft were not regarded as the great satan.
One thing is for certain, slashdot wouldn't exist.
Cheers,
RoadkillBunny
Hmm... Now, Microsoft really gets Open Source? The comments above apply to about 90% of projects hosted on Sourceforge!