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RMS is right to be suspicious of CodePlex Foundation

Story: Stallman Challenges Microsoft's CodePlex FoundationTotal Replies: 1
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tracyanne

Oct 07, 2009
12:01 AM EDT 		CodePlex as a repository of Open Source Software has been around for quite a while. It's original intent appeared to me to be a place where Open Source Code (including GLP2 licensed code) that was dependant on Microsoft Windows and Microsoft closed source Proprietary libraries, written in .NET could be stored and shared. So long as it funnelled code and applications onto Windows it was "good".

The CodePlex Foundation appears to me to be the extending of this repository, perhaps, it wasn't as successful as Microsoft hoped, so perhaps they now hope, that by creating a Foundation that is nominally open, they can pull a few more Open Source development projects in and lock them into Microsoft proprietary code bases.

Whatever the reasons, you can be certain they are not doing this for the benefit of the Free Open Source Community.
gus3

Oct 07, 2009
12:49 AM EDT 		I'll add to this the confusion between codeplex.com and codeplex.org. According to "whois", both domains are identically registered to Microsoft, yet their website designs are similar only in the motif with the icky green and the hexagonal images. What purpose would this serve, other than to confound the ill-informed?

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