Microsoft Releases FlexWiki as Open Source

davemabe writes "Microsoft is apparently releasing its FlexWiki wiki implementation as an open source project. FlexWiki is the software used to run the wikis over at Channel 9. My question is: Is this software as good as the ever-extensible Kwiki implementation?"

Comments

make microsoft bob open source

[el_salvador]

now that would rock!!! microsoft bob on linux, imagine the productivity increase

Re:make microsoft bob open source

[cletus.the.wonder.sl]

I would just settle for Clippy. Imagine a penguin running out and kicking Clippy everytime he showed up. pointless but entertaining.

Re:make microsoft bob open source

[Anonymous Coward]

I found the MS source to the clippy routine and it explains why it is so annoying.

<snip>
int Clippy(int *clippy_active) {

static int auto_activate_clippy_count = 0;

if (*clippy_active == false) {
*clippy_active = true;
auto_activate_clippy_count++;
}

/* Clippy script routines */
switch (auto_activate_clippy_count) {
case 0:
ClippyBeCute();
ClippyActCute();
ClippyFlirtWithUser();
ClippyHelpUser();
break;
case 1:
ClippyFrownAtUser();
ClippyGiveColdShoulder();
ClippyDemandUserApologize();
ClippyRandomlyHelpUser();
break;
case 2:
ClippyDoubleInSize();
ClippyBrowBeatUser();
ClippyBeAnnoying()
ClippyOfferNoHelp();
break;
default:
ClippyBePissedOff();
ClippyBugTheHellOutOfUser();
ClippyInterfereWithWork();
ClippyRefuseAnyHelp();
break;
}
return (auto_activate_clippy_count);
}

Re:make microsoft bob open source

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh come on, you know there's all sorts of patents in there that they'd use against you later.

Re:make microsoft bob open source

[mormop]

His name is actually Clippit.

Funny, everyone I meet seems to REFER him as "Go away you irrating little shit" or some variation on the theme.

like a drug dealer

[unbiasedbystander]

The first hit is always free...

Re:like a drug dealer

[Misinformed]

I am happy to meet up fuckwad

/. effect

[Greger47]

Well, regarding which one is best, I think FlexWiki wins the /. effect test, showing a 503 Service not available. Compared to Kwiki that doesn't respond at all... :)

/greger

What!!

[bluFox]

They can't do that, They have no right to be good. or who else do we look up to when it comes to evil?

Re:What!!

[Mr2cents]

Didn't you hear the news? MS has outsourced all evilness to SCO!

Why the use of the "F" word in FlexWikiBinaries?

[Jerky McNaughty]

From this page:

The Welcome to Fuck Wiki Forum 2_666 binaries are available by downloading release...[snip]

and

Install and configure your Welcome to Fuck Wiki Forum 2_666...[snip]

and

If you are new to Welcome to Fuck Wiki Forum 2_666 or just want your hand held...[snip]

I almost think that someone, umm, changed that page, because it doesn't make any sense to call it Fuck Wiki to me!

Re:NO!!!

[Mortanius]

Agreed. The FOSS 'movement' (what a romantic notion) can produce more than enough shoddy software by themselves!

Re:I find it ironic

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry Microsoft, you can't have your cake and eat it to..

If you have as much moiney as Microsoft, then you can have your cake, eat it, shit in someone else's cake and make them eat it. Buy lots of cake and eat that too. Sell your cake to everyone in the world, but then eat it anyway. Whatever you want to do with cake.. having shedloads of money will open those options up for you. Now, say you're an open source dev trying to give away your software - you should be lucky if you even see any crumbs. Never mind the cake.

We need a place...

[sczimme]

to store all these implementations - some kind of repository.

I propose we call it the Kwiki-Mart.

/thank you, come again

Re:We need a place...

[sapped]

Your sig:

e-had - a purely electronic holy war; i-had - much like an e-had, but it's portable

Would that make a jihad a Java implementation of an i-had?

drugs..

[geggibus]

..Microsoft..open source.. Duke Nukem Forever..
Mmmust q..ququit drugs, or buy a bomb shelter (and a heater for afterlife)..

-K

Re:I just came back from vacation...

[uberchicken]

I get it, you're saying hell must have frozen over right, cos Microsoft released some open source software. Am I right?

You made that story up, for comedic effect. You haven't really been on holiday in hell. That would be, like, dumb.

Re:I thought it was a joke

[geordie_loz]

I think there's probably a few more heads scratching, even in the Microsoft camp.

We are Microsoft.
We hate OpenSource (it's a "cancer" etc..)
We release another OpenSource project
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.
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My head hurts...