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Microsoft's CoApp To Help OSS Development, Deployment

Posted by timothy on from the meet-the-world's-biggest-foss-vendor dept.

badpazzword writes "Microsoft employee Garrett Serack announces he has received the green light to work full time on CoApp, an .msi-based package management system aiming to bring a wholly native toolchain for OSS development and deployment. This will hopefully bring more open source software on Windows, which will bring OSS to more users, testers and developers. Serack is following the comments at Ars Technica, so he might also follow them here. The launchpad project is already up."

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  1. Just like the other vendors by FranTaylor · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gee everyone else figured out a long time ago: give away the compiler.

    Charging developers for dev tools is no way to win hearts.

    Many developers are cross-platform and we would not be, if we had to pay for the tools for each platform.

    Maybe this will be a boost for gcc when everyone can see first hand how bad the Microsoft C++ compiler is.

    Maybe the Microsoft C++ developers will be shamed into improving their compiler when the comparisons come out.

    Maybe they will even embrace cygwin. It fits with their goal, because the rest of the community has.

    Maybe monkeys will fly out of my butt.