Comments on: Microsoft to launch code-sharing site

CodePlex, a portal for collaborative development and tools, will be offered through Microsoft's Shared Source program.

[Johnny Mnemonic]

Yeak Right!

First MS states that they can't understand why
anybody would right open-source software...
then they launch their own web site for doing
exactly that!! I guess most people have short
attention spans and would not remember anyway.

I don't think MS can embrace and extend the
free and open-source movement. It is about
freedom and choice, which is contrary to their
business model.

[fastdodge]

We are Micro$oft Prepare to be assimilated!

You just know that this is another Microsoft ploy. If you can?t
defeat the OS competition using F.U.D., then pretend to join the
OS with a Windoze only version of ?OS?. Go to
http://www.opensource.org/ to read the real OS definition and
decide for yourself if MS meets this definition.

There will be all kinds of strings attached to anything MS does.
Bottom line, what requirements are there from MS to use their
?Free? development packets? All MS licenses are subject to
change at a moments notice. All to fuel MS?s bottom line.

[atul_bluent]

MS must focus certain complimentary tools and software free and keep onto provide such tools as PHP developers get easily.........Market trends are changing and MS must change its attitude now to compete in the market.......Asp.Net is going down in Web Application Development and MS has to do something to uplift it back......and if required why not getting a bit flexible....