Microsoft opens site for publishing source
Microsoft has created a CodePlex website to publish source codes for programs and collaborate on projects. His testing began in May, and now the official opening took place.
Perhaps Microsoft hopes that in this way it will be able to lure to its side someone from independent developers who are currently involved in creating projects under free licenses, such as GNU. But first of all, the site is created for those developers who have been cooperating with Microsoft for a long time and write programs for Windows (and this is really a very large community). Now they have a new tool.
In fact, Microsoft for a long time did not recognize open source software at all, so the opening of the CodePlex site indicates a slight change in corporate philosophy. However, this is not a very significant change. The fact is that within the framework of the CodePlex project it is planned to publish only a small number of source codes of minor Microsoft software products. About full disclosure of codes, for example, Windows, even speech does not go.
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Anyway, the corporation expects that developers will publish their own programs on CodePlex and exchange code with each other. Microsoft seeks not to advertise its participation in the project and even removed the corporate logo from the site. The project is positioned as a public.
Since the beginning of testing in May 2006, about 35 projects have already found shelter on CodePlex, more than half of which are not owned by Microsoft. Co-editing code, identifying bugs, maintaining a database of bugs for each project is carried out using the new Visual Studio 2005 software Team Foundation Server, which Microsoft released in March.
Perhaps Microsoft hopes that in this way it will be able to lure to its side someone from independent developers who are currently involved in creating projects under free licenses, such as GNU. But first of all, the site is created for those developers who have been cooperating with Microsoft for a long time and write programs for Windows (and this is really a very large community). Now they have a new tool.
In fact, Microsoft for a long time did not recognize open source software at all, so the opening of the CodePlex site indicates a slight change in corporate philosophy. However, this is not a very significant change. The fact is that within the framework of the CodePlex project it is planned to publish only a small number of source codes of minor Microsoft software products. About full disclosure of codes, for example, Windows, even speech does not go.
')
Anyway, the corporation expects that developers will publish their own programs on CodePlex and exchange code with each other. Microsoft seeks not to advertise its participation in the project and even removed the corporate logo from the site. The project is positioned as a public.
Since the beginning of testing in May 2006, about 35 projects have already found shelter on CodePlex, more than half of which are not owned by Microsoft. Co-editing code, identifying bugs, maintaining a database of bugs for each project is carried out using the new Visual Studio 2005 software Team Foundation Server, which Microsoft released in March.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4106/
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