You can check out Microsoft's Shared Source page here:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/Licensing/default.mspx

Which lists the following projects:

http://www.flexwiki.com/
http://wtl.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/


Those are the three I've known about from /. I believe they are covered under IBM's Common Public License (not the shared source license.) All three are hosted on SF. MS has indicated that they may put more stuff there.

While nice projects in and of themselves, I think this is just some developers within MS that wanted to do these small projects in OSS and got their bosses to OK it. Now, MS can reap PR atta boys from it. But this is in no way an indication of policy change on their part.

BTW, FlexWiki is an Ok Wiki written in ASP.Net. An early version of it worked under Mono. However, the latest version doesn't compile because they are using some MS only classes in it. This sort of thing goes on a lot. You get OSS projects that are targeted at one platform (Windows) but that work in another (Mono/Linux) but then an upgrade occurs and little known platform specific features creap in. :(


Ed




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