Microsoft again with its confusing strategy of open source attack and aid, (quietly) made a new thing called the codeplex foundation. According to the website they created it to help bridge the gap between commercial companies and the open source world. Great idea but the board is made up of microsoft employees and what I like to call “friends of microsoft”. By “friends of microsoft” I mean people like Miguel De Icaza and Shaun Bruce Walker.
Again only time will tell how effective this new foundation is going to be but im quite interested to see what interest is displayed by non microsoft companies and non “friends of microsoft”.
Check out its website http://codeplex.org
All that being said ill keep an open mind about this and hopefully it will be helpful to the community as a whole.
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If I did my own foundation, I would call my friends, as in, the people I trust to be part of it and part of its board.
I for one care about the success of the open source model, not the failure of Microsoft, so the more things they do in the right direction, the better.
Note that there´s a lot of enteprisey ISV that are quite comfortable in the Windows world and they don´t know neither care about open source. This foundation will help to get people at the other side of the spectrum, closer to our position.
So all in all, I do think is a good thing and I wish other companies that are known to be way more open had the guts to create a foundation to get some things right about their community governance models.
Great attitude, I cant disagree with anything you say at all. I really hope that codeplex works out well. The only thing is that im scared that it might turn into another microsoft project like http://port25.technet.com/ that no one uses because its too biased towards microsoft.
An analysis from a legal point of view by Andy Updegrove:
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20090914102959510
Shane Fagan: Codeplex… http://bit.ly/10klhC #postrank #linux