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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. Microsoft has been surprising me lately by calibre-not-output · · Score: 0, Troll

    They seem like less of an evil empire now that they're doing some good stuff once in a while and Google is being more blatantly monopolistic.

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    Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change.
    1. Re:Microsoft has been surprising me lately by h4rr4r · · Score: 0, Troll

      Do you get paid to spout this?
      This is a method to get OSS apps on windows, to make sure you don't dare use another OS.
      Interoperability would be making their apps run on an OSS OS.

  2. nothing MS does is good for anyone but Microsoft by kawabago · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is no different.

  3. Re:I'll follow them here too. :D by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You do know that the work agreement that you signed during orientation stated that Microsoft owns any software that you produce on your own time, as long as Microsoft may compete against said software at some point in the future?

  4. Re:I'll follow them here too. :D by stuckinphp · · Score: 0, Troll

    Honestly, I'm just waiting for the MS fan boy kids they are cranking out of schools these days to start spilling details of this great new thing MS just invented called a package manager too all their friends.

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  5. The largest issue by codepunk · · Score: 0, Troll

    One of the largest problems to be faced with this endevor is that I a open source developer could really care less
    if my software even runs or compiles on a Windows machine.

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  6. Re:Just like the other vendors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have a big effin problem with the ms compiler. Look at the dang for loop structure. The bastards can't even define and implement a for loop correctly. //one loop
    for (int i-0;i5;i++)
    {
    } //second loop
    for (int i=0;i10;i++)
    {
    }

    compile that snippit of code, and watch the errors fly about redeclaring i.

  7. Re:I'll follow them here too. :D by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    +5 Insightful? Fucking trash.