Microsoft, Canonical, LWN
Microsoft, Canonical, LWN
Posted Jun 29, 2006 8:57 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670)In reply to: Microsoft, Canonical, LWN by GreyWizard
Parent article: Microsoft Launches CodePlex, a New Collaborative Development Portal
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. :)
Posted Jul 3, 2006 18:27 UTC (Mon)
by GreyWizard (guest, #1026)
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No offense taken with regard to the relative importance of comments and code. :-)
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.Microsoft, Canonical, LWN