Microsoft goes opensource

[a.titus1]

Say what you will about microsoft, I'm pretty excited that they jumped into the open source ring. Now google, yahoo and mircrosoft will all be sharing at least some of their projects. As a developer theres no bad way to spin this.

http://www.codeplex.com/

 

[theNOTO]

Wow, I had not heard anything about this. I had heard they were going to be using Linux based wireless routers on the Microsoft campus though. Seems like a step in the right direction.

 

[WallaceCleaver]

Say what you will about microsoft, I'm pretty excited that they jumped into the open source ring. Now google, yahoo and mircrosoft will all be sharing at least some of their projects. As a developer theres no bad way to spin this.

http://www.codeplex.com/

Just when I was having so much fun bashing Microsoft they had to go and do a good thing.

 

[Dave]

useless to me, but i expect some cool stuff to be done by others.

 

[WallaceCleaver]

useless to me, but i expect some cool stuff to be done by others.

Well, yeah, it's not like I'm going to do anything with it, but I imagine that it will be used as the building blocks for some cool stuff.

 

[Charlie]

And I am sure Microsoft can see a mirriad of ways of making more money by selling basics to bolt on the opensource bits others develop