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Top 25 Hottest Open-Source Projects at Microsoft Codeplex

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the kind-of-a-coole-name dept.

willdavid writes "Via CNet, a link to a blog post with the top 25 most active open-source projects on Microsoft's Codeplex site. As the CNet blogger notes, 'Codeplex is interesting to me for several reasons, but primarily because it demonstrates something that I've argued for many years now: open source on the Windows platform is a huge opportunity for Microsoft. It is something for the company to embrace, not despise.'"

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  1. Open source projects? by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Interesting
    One things is for sure - they all rely on proprietary Microsoft produts (.Net, sharepoint, SQL server, etc) to run. They're not particularly useful to the Open Source community, just the Microsoft community. (In Debian, they would sit in the non-free repositorty).

    open source on the Windows platform is a huge opportunity for Microsoft. It is something for the company to embrace, not despise.'"

    Some open source is good for MS - the sort of not particularly open software that relies on MS's OS & libs. Any software that can be easily ported to another platform is a threat.

    Oh - and Open Source? Pah-lease. A license that governs USE of the software sounds neither permissive nor open:

    Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL)

    This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software.
    --
    There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
  2. Won't accept GPL3 by Saint+Stephen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wrote some C# Visual Studio addins and tried to upload them to codeplex. The only GPL license choice was gpl2, but I put in the comments "don't download this if you don't accept GPL3." Some code-monkey unpublished it because the license didn't match the chosen license - but GPL3 wasn't an option!

    So I won't host it there.