It’s been a long, hot summer in the open-source world, particularly in the regions where open source and Microsoft butt up against each other. In the midst of this acrimony, Microsoft has launched the Codeplex Foundation, which is aimed at enabling the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open-source communities. Can the foundation cool things down?
– It’s
been a long, hot summer in the open-source world, particularly in the regions
where open source and Microsoft butt up against each other, causing friction
between and within the two camps as their members battle over whether and how
they should interact.
Microsoft
has been all over the ma…