Microsoft, Canonical, LWN

Posted Jul 3, 2006 18:27 UTC (Mon) by GreyWizard (guest, #1026)
In reply to: Microsoft, Canonical, LWN by job
Parent article: Microsoft Launches CodePlex, a New Collaborative Development Portal

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. :-)