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Top 25 Hottest Open-Source Projects at Microsoft Codeplex
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.'"
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
Pretend you're software developers, for just a minute, and not OS kooks obsessed with ridiculous ideals. ... ...
... I have to admit, I feel a bit sorry for you.
*chuckle*
How about you pretend for once you're a software developer and not some MS user who doesn't give a damn about lock-in and plattform independance?
If I have to go back to developing in Perl/Python/PHP or even Java I'm going to put a pencil through my eyeball - most of it's just sloppy, primitive shit compared to what MS is doing.
Where I come from, we do out code ourselves. And AFAICT it's not sloppy at all. Not that I'd want to poke my eye out over that quick hack I did this morning anyway. Must be tough.
Cry all you want about their OS's [...]
Personally, I actually piss my pants laughing about their OS's most of the time.
[...]they'd port an industrial strength CLR env to Linux along with all their class libraries, and Visual Studio/Orcas[...]
You MS folk seem to have it with eye-pocking, so let me put it this way: I'm 120% sure Balmer & Gates would rather have both their eyes poked out than have that happen. Would be interesting though. A nice 'what-if' anyway. Both the MS-Exec eye-poking and those IDE's you were talking about.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
You can't use GPLv3'd software with DRM,
Wrong. Dumbass.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.