On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:01:25 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 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
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> 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.
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.
So that's right, nearly 1 in 2 projects isn't actually open source, since
there is no code available.
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