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CodePlex 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.
by g051051 9y ago
CodePlex 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.