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Microsoft Open Sources and Forks Windows Live Writer Into Open Live Writer
SmartAboutThings writes: Windows Live Writer is a blogging tool that Microsoft originally released back in 2006, and it still remains popular today, which has prompted Microsoft to promise that it will make it open source earlier this year. Now the company has officially open-sourced and forked Windows Live Writer into Open Live Writer, having put its repositories on GitHub already.
I'm waiting for them to open source Comic Chat.
There's a ton of AC posts, and most of them never get modded up even if they're of good quality. Many of them are modded down to -1 simply because some moderator disagrees with them, even if they're not trollish at all. Meanwhile, crap posts from logged-in users gets modded up once in awhile. I've had an account for months that has excellent karma but for some reason doesn't get to metamoderate and has never gotten mod points. I read a fair amount of articles, but for whatever reason I'm apparently not welcome to moderate. I can't figure out what criteria are used to determine who gets to moderate, but it's clearly not working. Slashdot sucks, especially the moderators. The moderators on this site are a fucking joke. Fuck you moderators!
Open Live Writer is an open source application enabling users to author, edit, and publish blog posts.
which would mean something if the world hadn't been using wordpress for 12 years. Microsoft had the opportunity to open source things like IIS, frontpage, and a wealth of other web-centric tools and technologies to compete with Apache and Nginx. But instead they paid off hosting providers to put parked websites on IIS to goose their numbers in Netcraft. open-sourcing an editor is boggling, unless for some reason that editor happened to use already open-source code.
Good people go to bed earlier.
So, Microsoft has timeline-editing software to let them insert actions into their own chronological past? Cool!
Perhaps Microsoft promised earlier this year that it will make WLW open-source, and is now doing so? Or perhaps they promised that they would make it open-source earlier this year, but are only now doing so?
Your suggestion is for something that would make the text easier to read. Not all /. readers are native speakers and we have a hard time trying to make sense of badly constructed sentences. Thank you.
Linux is for people who don't mind RTFM.
"Today: Most Anyone Today any regular Slashdot reader is probably eligible to become a moderator. A variety of factors weigh into it, but if you are logged in when you browse Slashdot comments, you might occasionally be granted moderator access. Don't worry about it- Just keep reading this document and learn what to do about it! Who It's probably the most difficult part of the process: Who is allowed to moderate. On one hand, many people say "Everyone", but I've chosen to avoid that path because the potential for abuse is so great. Instead, I've set up a few simple rules for determining who is eligible to moderate. Logged In User If the system can't keep track, it won't work, so you gotta log in. Sorry if you're paranoid, but this system demands a certain level of accountability. Regular Slashdot Readers The scripts track average accesses from each logged in user. It then selects eligible users who read an average number of times. The homepage doesn't count either. It then picks users from the middle of the pack- no obsessive compulsive reloaders, and nobody who just happened to read an article this week. Long Time Readers The system throws out the newest few thousand accounts. This prevents people from creating new accounts to simply get moderator access, but more importantly, means that newbies will have to be part of the community for a few weeks before they gain access to the controls to a system they don't understand. Willing to Serve If you don't want to moderate, just visit your user preferences, and set yourself as 'Unwilling' Positive Contributors Slashdot tracks your "Karma" (see the FAQ). If you have non negative Karma, this means you have posted more good comments than bad, and are eligible to moderate. This weeds out spam accounts. So the end result is a pool of eligible users that represent (hopefully) average, positive slashdot contributors. Occasionally (well, every 30 minutes actually) the system checks the number of comments that have been posted, and gives a proportionate amount of eligible users "Tokens". When any user acquires a certain number of tokens, they become a moderator. This means that you'll need to be eligible for many of these slices in order to actually gain access. It all works to make sure that everyone takes turns, and nobody can abuse the system, and that only "regular" readers become moderators (as opposed to some random newbie ;)"
After all, sooner or later MS ends up forking everything and everybody it touches.
can we expect a linux port?
I give MS kudos. IBM was the jerk before they lost their monopoly.
Now MS is being all nice. VS code is open sourced. .NET is open sourced. I believe they opened up another project recently too a week or two ago.
http://saveie6.com/
But apparently at least one reader with mod points thinks this is trolling. Whatever.
I do try to make allowances for posters and submitters who don't have strong English skills. But as long as submissions are reviewed and edited, I think those editors ought to take enough pride in their work to make sure accepted submissions are coherent.
Use an app from 2006 to get your company name scraped on search engines next to the words "Open Source"?
got it.