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Start-Up Delivers Open Source Offerings to Build User Base

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nothing-like-give-aways-to-advertise dept.

The new wiki start-up founded by former Microsoft employees, MindTouch, has just announced two new open source offerings to help bolster their user base. MindTouch Dream, a development framework and Deki, a wiki-based document sharing program that was built using Dream, will both be debuted at this year's OSCON, currently underway. From the article: "Applications written with MindTouch Dream can be done in PHP or .Net languages such as C# or Visual Basic. Programs can run on Microsoft Windows machines or Novell's Mono software for running .Net applications on Linux or Unix."

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  1. Oh Noes! by Cap'nPedro · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think I hear the sound of a chair hitting a wall!

  2. Now I understand by stocke2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    on their site they say the love open source and use mono,debian,apache,etc...
    now I understand why they don't work at MS anymore
    they got canned

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  3. More MS innovation eh? by RomulusNR · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Start-Up Delivers Open Source Offerings to Build User Base"

    Yeah. Quick, think of ten other software houses that this could have ever been said about.

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  4. They ALMOST Get It by TheDarkSavant · · Score: 5, Funny

    They seem so proud of themselves for being open source. Come to find out, their product only exists so users of MS Office can share their documents. Anyone else see the irony in that?

  5. Formula for success, 100% guarantee by Iloinen+Lohikrme · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Make a product
    2. Open source it and hype it to death in Slashdot
    3. ?
    4. Profit


    Actually if you are clever, you can skip the part one, and just hype it to death and move to profit, also known as IPO.

    Why didn't I invent this idea? ...well I guess I just have to buy their shares when they go to IPO.

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  6. Re:MindTouch Dream? by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 2, Funny
    It took me a couple years to figure out what .NET actually is/does (hint: it's a marketing term for a whole bunch of unrelated or at best loosely-related products and marketing campaigns...)

    So it's like "Web 2.0", then? Thanks!
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