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.

Comments

Re:For $DEITY's sake

[evilviper]

Sorry, doesn't apply to Microsoft. They've taken every opportunity to bash open source of every kind, so when they start to embrase it (especially without any announced change in their policy torwards open source) you have to consider the apparent conflict, and wonder if there are any signs to indicate whether their intentions are good, or not.

1 April

[macarie]

First I told myself: good one, but after that realized that it's not 1 April anymore...

c'mon

[Bender Unit 22]

or do you think they are embracing on the Open Source movement?
Oh yeah, right. Come on. what kind of stupid question is that?

April fools?!

[samhart]

Isn't this a little late for April fools day?!

Microsoft releasing an OSS project hosted on SourceForge indeed....