Microsoft unveils new open-source initiative

If you can't beat them, join them! Seems to be the new Microsoft strategy. After coming to the spotlight recently for donating around 20,000 lines of code to the open source community, (to help Windows run on Linux virtualization platforms), they have now started a new open source foundation CodePlex, not to be confused with their open source code sharing website of the same name. Their new foundation it seems is an effort to get more commercial companies to participate in open source vent [...]
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Microsoft unveils new open-source initiative

If you can’t beat them, join them!

Seems to be the new Microsoft strategy. After coming to the spotlight recently for donating around 20,000 lines of code to the open source community, (to help Windows run on Linux virtualization platforms), they have now started a new open source foundation CodePlex, not to be confused with their open source code sharing website of the same name.

Their new foundation it seems is an effort to get more commercial companies to participate in open source vent […]
Read the entire article >>

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