Microsoft Reaches Out To Open Source Gives Birth To CodePlex
Back in the day when I was in college, around five to seven years ago, .NET was mainstream just like JAVA, C++, and so on, but as time grew, .NET wasn’t that attractive due to licensing and its proprietary model. As things stand, we can safely make an assumption that Microsoft is seeing its .NET technology is not widespread enough, but instead Microsoft sees how Open Source community has thrived like wildfire. If Microsoft left things stand as in status quo, the gap for future adoptions in term of projects, .NET may lag behind the Open Source’s preferable programming languages such as PHP, Ruby, and others. Actually, .NET is already somewhat less popular than many other Open Source’s programming languages.
Why Open Source is so desirable? Anyone can pick up the knowledge of an Open Source’s programming language, coding a project, release it either for company’s use only or for Open Source community, and you doing all that without worrying about proprietary licensing. It makes the project flows much smoother, and the Open Source community is huge which can be very helpful in term of human resource where other talented Open Source programmers can join your Open Source project to improve your project even more.
Not to fight the trend, but to join the trend, and so Microsoft donates and supports the launch of CodePlex Foundation. CodePlex Foundation is not competing with other Open Source communities, but it’s here to be a complement as it has claimed to be so. CodePlex Foundation may play a role where it brings programmers from proprietary world closer to the Open Source world. How will this help Microsoft is remaining to be seen.
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