Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Thu 10th Sep 2009 20:14 UTC
Microsoft is creating a 501.c non-profit organization (called the CodePlex Foundation) that will support open source projects from the community. That's a little funny since proof was uncovered that they were providing anti-Linux training in this very same week. The foundation is different from the CodePlex website, launched in 2006. The website is rather a complementing factor to the foundation, or vise versa. A FAQ about the project said, "The Foundation is solving similar challenges; ultimately aiming to bring open source and commercial software developers together in a place where they can collaborate. This is absolutely independent from the project hosting site, but it is essentially trying to support the same mission. It is just solving a different part of the challenge, a part that Codeplex.com isn't designed to solve... We believe that commercial software companies and the developers that work for them under-participate in open source projects."
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RE[2]: Open Source Does Not Mean Linux
by diego on Fri 11th Sep 2009 03:16
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I agree. In fact, I was just about to write the same thing.
If Microsoft does not want to help Linux, perhaps they'll help ReactOS. They most certainly could.