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Microsoft Start Their Own Open Source Foundation

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The CodePlex Foundation, a non-profit foundation formed with the mission of enabling the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities, launched today, September 10, 2009. Incorporated as a 501.c6 non-profit, the CodePlex Foundation was created as a forum in which open source communities and the software development community can come together with the shared goal of increasing participation in open source community projects. The CodePlex Foundation will complement existing open source foundations and organizations, providing a forum in which best practices and shared understanding can be established by a broad group of participants, both software companies and open source communities. Initial funding for the Foundation comes from Microsoft Corporation.

[It is going to be very interesting to see how they use this new tool of theirs. - Scott]

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flufferbeer ·
As soon as I commented on M$'s subterfuge in another thread, out comes this news of this new CodePlex Foundation. Just Wow!

Code-sharing and interoperability for the mutual benefit of all you're thinking?? No way!!! Just another way for backdoor EEE. The chutzpah of it all! The higher-ups throwing all that money at Ramji for this just goes to show just how REALLY desperate M$ is for more developer talent and innovation in its floundering product-line. Sheesh!
vainrveenr ·
Quoting:Code-sharing and interoperability for the mutual benefit of all you're thinking??
Point emphasized.

And one could further ask; Are Microsoft's current code-Development overtures such as this entirely alruistic and REALLY for everyone's benefit, notwithstanding the continued calls for mutual trust and cooperation here ??? Microsoft's developers could have the most to gain and the least to lose with promoting CodePlex at this particular window of opportunity before Windows 7 is released.

Indeed, these Interoperability overtures in the Microsoft Developmental Strategy against F/OSS remain strangely reminiscent of the fictional Borg Collective's in Star Trek: The Next Generation as each Borg Cube starship approaches its next victim (see the 'Resistance is futile' Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_is_futile for this comparison)

When approaching F/OSS project devs, ---------------

We are the Microsoft Development Team.

You will be Assimilated.

Free and Open resistance is futile.

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And as already described in the second comment from current LXer thread http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/29646/ for L.S.D., Microsoft's ultimate plans for this assimilationist Development Strategy may yet prove to be another means of attempting to somehow "defeat" Linux.

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