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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. Actual links? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the summary, can we please have the actual links to the projects?

    http://opengarden.org/
    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki

  2. Re:MindTouch Dream? by Cederic · · Score: 2, Informative


    I got the impression from the article that their current wiki offering is a Wikimedia mod, but that Deki is a new bespoke development based around their Dream development environment.

    Which would make Deki something new and possibly different and definitely of interest.

  3. Re:MindTouch Dream? by gregmac · · Score: 2, Informative
    I'm having a hard time understanding what MindTouch Dream actually provides. Is it a development environment framework? A IDE? It isn't clear to me how an application written in "MindTouch Dream" can also be PHP -or- .NET -or- C#.


    I think they're taking a page from the marketing book for .NET. 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 -- What exactly does the .NET framework have to do with MSN..?).

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  4. Re:Now I understand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I actually had an opportunity to work for those guys last year and I turned it down. They were very close-minded, and dead-set on building their system around Windows and C#. Their dedication to open source isn't much more than lip service.

  5. MediaWiki by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    MindTouch's primary business is selling a so-called wiki appliance to small and medium-size companies. The appliance includes a modified version of MediaWiki, the software behind Wikipedia, and a server that can be updated remotely, Bjorg said. MindTouch changed MediaWiki to make it easier to use for workers sharing Microsoft Office documents.
    They dont have a choice. Media Wiki is released under GPL. As per GPL terms, derivatives of MediaWiki also be released under GPL. Otherwise they can be sued for GPL violations.