RSSMicrosoft Opens Up CodePlex Site
By the Betanews Staff | Published May 17, 2006, 1:45 PM
Microsoft is undertaking a project that aims to spur community development around the platform, Microsoft Watch reported earlier this week. Called CodePlex, the site will host projects by parties that would be made available under a variety of licenses, including Microsoft Shared Source and the GPL, among others.
Currently 19 projects are hosted on the CodePlex site. These include a Commerce Starter Kit that allows developers to use ASP.NET 2.0 to access Paypal; IronPython, an implementation of the popular Python programming language for .Net; and Turtle, Open source client for Visual Studio Team System. "You can use CodePlex to create new projects to share with your fellow developers around the world, join others who have already started their own projects, or use the applications on this site and provide feedback," Microsoft says.
I think the biggest question is will 99% of these projects be abandoned by their creator the way they are on SourceForge?
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mm i heard sourceforge was having problems, so this is just as well
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Yeah, a little late as always for MS. It's called sourceforge.net
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So they shouldn't do it at all then? Is that true for everyone else? Only one mp3 player, only one browser, only one forum software, only one text editor, only one news site?
Someone is always first, doesn't mean others can't try and provide something different or better.
Troll.
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http://developer.berlios.de/
http://www.tigris.org/
http://dotsrc.org/
http://ibiblio.org/
http://freshmeat.net/
https://www.bountysource.com/
https://gna.org/
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Sourceforge is just one among many. Now there's another one. What's your problem?
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Really, this is great news. I love these kinds of sites.
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And only one computer.
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Remember the mantra whenever MS releases a competing product in an already-established business segment: v1 is sh*t, v2 is sh*t, v3 is sh*t, but v4?!? it's the best product (bang for buck) out of everything else out there!!...
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Oooops double post. :o
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