nismok
09-13-2009, 12:53 AM
Microsoft is creating a 501.c non-profit organization (http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/09/microsoft-launches-open-source.html) (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 (http://www.osnews.com/story/22130/Microsoft_Offers_BestBuy_Employees_Anti-Linux_Training) in this very same week. The foundation is different from the CodePlex website (http://www.osnews.com/story/14681/Microsoft_Opens_Codeplex), 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."
"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."