Shared Source: Don't Throw the Babysteps Out With the Bathwater

"Steven Vaughan-Nichols over at eWeek is convinced that open source projects released under Microsoft's shared source licenses are crap. It's not hard to understand how he arrives at this conclusion. He directs our attention to the 25 most active open source projects at Microsoft's CodePlex site and points out that they aren't really all that active or interesting.

"He's not exaggerating; the top 25 at CodePlex really do fail to impress..."

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