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For all of Microsoft's attacks on open source, although not altruistically, their embrace of open source is not that recent. People seem to forget they launched
by erikbye 9y ago
For all of Microsoft's attacks on open source, although not altruistically, their embrace of open source is not that recent. People seem to forget they launched a successful open source hub (CodePlex) two years before GitHub, which enjoyed popularity for years.
F#'s compiler and tools has been Apache licensed since, what, 2005?
- g051051 9y agoCodePlex was created because they didn't want to use the (at the time) standard for Open Source, SourceForge. They abandoned it when GitHub rose to prominence. This was pretty much exactly what Google did as well, with Google Code.