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Microsoft Source Code Site Exits Beta

By Nate Mook | Published June 27, 2006, 2:30 PM

Microsoft officially launched CodePlex on Tuesday, a software development portal designed to host projects by third parties and share source code. In beta testing since May, CodePlex offers code under a variety of licenses, including Microsoft Shared Source and the GPL, among others.

The site is currently home to more than 30 collaborate development projects, Microsoft says, including the company's own "Atlas" Control Toolkit, IronPython 1.01 Beta 1 and Power Toys for Visual Studio. "CodePlex provides a forum to bring together developers from around the world and gives them tools, source code and an advanced platform for designing and building software," said Jon Rosenberg, director of Community Source Programs at Microsoft.

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kbsoftware
Jun 28, 2006 - 3:50 AM

So does this mean that Microsoft is now supporting open source or do they still want to crush it ?
Or is this just a new way to steal new ideas :)

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jshurst
Jun 27, 2006 - 5:21 PM

Looks pretty cool. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see any category listings. I think this will be a must in the future, although maybe the search functionality will eliminate the need for this...maybe...

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wincement
Jun 27, 2006 - 2:48 PM

Don't know about anyone else, but I'm looking forward to this if it takes off. I like Sourceforge, but it seems awfully cluttered lately, and hardly any of the projects use the features that I would find useful on it.

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