On 2007-02-20, Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> 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.
>> `----
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>> http://www.itdirection.net/it-news-0006/021907-00099-it-news.shtml
>>
>> Even the brand-new Google hosting beats them.
> By the way, I'm not sure where you got the 141,625 figure. I did an
> advanced search listing all projects since the 1970's until today and it
> only came back with 118,051. However, if you exclude projects that don't
> have any files, that number drops to 64,144.
Wow! 64,144* vs. 700. That makes MS .NYET mislabelled "code-sharing"
crapware look gobs better than it did!
In any event, apology accepted.
* Not that I trust MS Math. But I don't feel like bothering. I don't
have a monopoly that needs my apologies on their behalf.
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Windows is not a virus. Viruses do something.
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