"Last month, Microsoft further immersed itself in the waters of open source by launching CodePlex, an online repository for “open and shared source developers.” CodePlex, open to the public at www.codeplex.com, bills itself as a beta (as of Memorial Day weekend), and according to the site’s FAQs, was written from scratch in C# and runs on top of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.
Of course, what could have been the first contribution to the site—the source code to CodePlex itself—isn’t being shared. The official explanation is that it’s “designed to run in the Microsoft data center, so it isn’t something that could realistically be hosted in another environment.” "
"But senior analyst Michael Goulde of Forrester Research believes Microsoft is just being Microsoft. The first reason for CodePlex to exist is branding, Goulde said. “Microsoft wanted to have an [open-source] infrastructure that had their brand on it, not the SourceForge brand.”
Licensing is a second—but important—factor, according to Goulde: Microsoft has “a couple of their own flavors of open-source licenses. They’re not listed on the Open Source Initiative site…the fact is, the Microsoft open-source licenses [are] not accepted at SourceForge.” CodePlex is “an attempt to further the cause for [Microsoft’s] brand of open-source efforts.”"
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