Codeplex Foundation: The High School Musical Of Open Source?

“Microsoft’s Codeplex Foundation has been viewed with
suspiction – and you can see why. Microsoft is a long time critic
of open source software, claiming for instance that Linux contains
material which infringes its patents, but now it is cosying up to
the movement.

“Next month the company is a major speaker at the upcoming Open
Source Business Conference. It has a controversial support deal
with Novell for the OpenSUSE Linux distribution, all of which is
seen in some quarters as “acknowledging the enterprise role
of Linux”.

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