Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:01:25 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft tries to be friendly to the open source community
>>
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>>| When the company launched its code-sharing forum called CodePlex
>>| in May of 2006, the Web site only had 12 posted projects. Today,
>>| nine months later, there are more than 700 current projects on the
>>| site to allowing programmers and developers to contribute and
>>| freely share code in the IT community.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.itdirection.net/it-news-0006/021907-00099-it-news.shtml
>>
>> Even the brand-new Google hosting beats them.
>>
>> Yesterday I read a .NET blogger who whined about the lack of Open Source code
>> in the Microsoft world. Everything is PHP and MySQL, he argued. This attempt
>> to catch up is a case of too little, too late. And needless to say, Open
>> source with Microsoft technology is self contradictory.
>
> Oh, give me a break. There are dozens of sites with open source .NET
> projects. A good example is the gotdotnet.com site: That mans nearly 2
> out 3 projects on source forge aren't actually open source, since they
> don't have any source (or binary) files available.
>
>
> http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/directory.aspx
>
> 8925 projects.
>
> http://www.codeproject.com
>
> 14,989 visual studio and .NET articles (most with code)
>
> http://www.asp.net/default.aspx?tabindex=6&tabid=49
>
> a ton of different sites, many of which also have code available.
>
> Don't kid yourself. .NET is well established.
>
Ummm...in Minnesota?
You can barely find the shit here in NYC, funkybreath.
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