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Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation

darthcamaro writes "Microsoft already had its own open source (OSI-approved) licenses, its own open source project hosting site and now it's adding its own non-profit open source foundation. That's right, the company that is still banging the patent drum against open source now has its own 501(c)(6) open source foundation. Officially called the CodePlex Foundation, it's a separate effort from the CodePlex site and is aimed at helping to get more commercial developers involved in open source. Considering how they continue to attack Linux and open source, will anyone take them seriously?"

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  1. Re:Jealousy by Desler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The fact that you were wrong about what something as basic as LINQ is doesn't make me have a high opinion of your other statements.

  2. Hitler was a Jew, grandfather in Solomon family by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What I find odd is how the same sarcasm continues despite all the research done. The fact is that Adolph Hitler was a Catholic Jew, not a diasporic one but he did in-fact push Jews back into an Israeli competition to Palestine. Also of note was the somewhat millions of Jews serving in the German Army, most-likely this was true to prove that the National Socialist Party wasn't anti-shemetic by not convicting cooperative Germanic Jews but in-deed hated the non-Germanic Jews sending the wealth to other countries. The next proof is that Adolph Hitler's chosen generals and party leaders were in-fact authentic jews with jewish names; Joseph Gerbils, the minister of (dis)Information was a jew and in the new Nazi-approved German berth registry the native people in Germany may only name their children Germanic names (and Joseph wasn't on the list). And last to conclude, just like Ahnold Schwartzen-nigger, Adolph Alois Michelgrubber Hitler was from Austria where he got his Aryan blood but sucking it dry off the cocks of Austrians.

    Only in a nigger'd country does the word for white (shemite) can be slandered as meaning "Jew" when it in-fact is the a$$-pho-king opposite.

    1. Re:Hitler was a Jew, grandfather in Solomon family by jDeepbeep · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The fact is that Adolph Hitler was a Catholic Jew

      The problem here is, you won't be able to come up with a single credible source to back you up on this. The rumors surrounding your Hitler == Jew myth are based on non-evidence regarding his grandmother getting knocked up while working the grounds at a rothschild estate. Bullshit.

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  3. Re:Jealousy by Runaway1956 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Worms. Operating system. Worms. Operating system. I'm working here. Straining my brain. Which operating system is full of worms, viruses, trojan horses, and other signs of rot? Worms........

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  4. Re:Wait a sec... by compro01 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Russia only had one czar at a time. The US currently has about 30 of them.

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  5. Here we go again by davmoo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Considering how they continue to attack Linux and open source, will anyone take them seriously?

    Are some of you people really this fucking stupid? Of course Microsoft attacks Linux and Open Source. That is part of their competition. Just like they attack Apple. That's what businesses do. Apple, Open Source and Linux attack Microsoft back just as hard (and most of the time with just as much fud).

    Its like you people expect Microsoft to produce an ad that says "Our software isn't perfect and Open Source might work better for you and save you money in the process, but hey, buy our $200 product anyway!"

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  6. Re:Short Answer: by Requiem18th · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just to nit pick but Hitler was Catholic, Gott mit uns remember? He sought (and got) Papal blessing, he was committed against the theory evolution, his eugenical ideas derived from the idea of a holy race or "choosen people" he didn't even consider Jesus a Jew, preferring to believe in an "Aryan Jesus".

    Now, Hitler building a science museum, THAT would have ulterior motives.

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