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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.
Neato. =) Even though I don't use XML.... why not Windows Media Player?
Why is it all professional ice skaters are choosing to go to hell now? This is realy going to throw someones metrics off.
Karma: SELECT `karma` FROM `users` WHERE `userid`=138474;
What is the purpose of modding funny posts down as overrated? If humor is not your kind of thing, just set a negative penalty on "funny" in your preferences. You might say "but it's not THAT funny" or "it's not MY kind of humor", but if you take a good look you see that the vast majority of "funny" posts have also been modded as "overrated". Maybe Over/Underrated moderations should also be meta-moderated?
Btw, anyone knows if -1,Overrated on a +N,Funny comment decreases karma? (since Funny doesn't increase it)
Disclaimer: I'm not the OP.
Subject should read decrease instead of increase. Oopsie.
Hate me!
Well, the reason why it won't be fixed is because they have something against funny comments. Taco whined about how he didn't think funny comments were funny for the longest time, and then he switched the metamod to be harsher on funny comments, and then funny comments no longer get the author any karma ... of course, he could just set his options to give a -5 to funny comments, but for some reason he thinks that his opinions should be pushed onto everybody else.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
The license looks good, but the code is C#.
Maybe the Mono folks will be interested.