Microsoft, Canonical, LWN

Posted Jun 28, 2006 16:27 UTC (Wed) by GreyWizard (guest, #1026)
In reply to: Microsoft Launches CodePlex, a New Collaborative Development Portal by drag
Parent article: Microsoft Launches CodePlex, a New Collaborative Development Portal

That also sounds similar to LWN, which -- correct me if I'm mistaken -- has yet to release the code that runs this site. I'm inclined to cut LWN some slack on that issue, so it's hard to be angry at Canonical or even Microsoft for the same thing. At least Microsoft has no shortage of actual transgressions that would make this particular issue merit attention. For instance, your point about using open source as leverage against free software is a good one.

Microsoft, Canonical, LWN

Posted Jun 29, 2006 8:57 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670) [Link] (1 responses)

There's a great deal of difference in the data being locked up. In the case on Launchpad/Codeplex it's code, and in the case of LWN it's our insightful comments. Absolutely no offense to anybody, but perhaps one is more important to free software than the other. :)

Microsoft, Canonical, LWN

Posted Jul 3, 2006 18:27 UTC (Mon) by GreyWizard (guest, #1026) [Link]

Perhaps I've misunderstood, but my impression is that Canonical's Launchpad, Microsoft's CodePlex and the LWN code are software packages that make up web applications. None of them seem designed to lock up the data they manage and even if that's incorrect the organizations involved could release the code without accepting external changes, so the availability of their source code seems unrelated to the status of that data.

No offense taken with regard to the relative importance of comments and code. :-)