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People used Codeplex? I thought it was just this crazy halfstep Sam Ramji convinced MS to take, leading them to open source. When it launched, Codeplex was supp
by VonGuard 3y ago
People used Codeplex? I thought it was just this crazy halfstep Sam Ramji convinced MS to take, leading them to open source. When it launched, Codeplex was supposed to be a source code museum, where you could see the code but not reuse it. Crazy I know, but it was what MS was comfortable with at the time, and a few years later they opened .NET. Codeplex was like an experiment to get MS to touch open source code and feel comfortable with it at a legal level, not a replacement for Sourceforge...
- dotnet00 3y agoAround those times I was mostly a .NET kid and most of the .NET projects I remember looking at were on CodePlex, so maybe my perspective is a little distorted.
- aleph_minus_one 3y agoYour perspective is in my experience not distorted. Programming is not a unique culture, but divided into multiple subcultures. Projects that were nearer to the .NET or Windows programming culture indeed often chose CodePlex instead of GitHub while there was a choice.