Re:How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code host...
by VonGuard on Saturday March 30, 2024 @12:50PM
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People used Codeplex? I thought it was just this crazy halfstep Sam Ramji convinced MS to take, leading them to open source. When it launched, Codeplex was supposed to be a source code museum, where you could see the code but not reuse it. Crazy I know, but it was what MS was comfortable with at the time, and a few years later they opened .NET. Codeplex was like an experiment to get MS to touch open source code and feel comfortable with it at a legal level, not a replacement for Sourceforge...
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Re:How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code host...
by dotnet00 on Saturday March 30, 2024 @01:35PM
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Around those times I was mostly a .NET kid and most of the .NET projects I remember looking at were on CodePlex, so maybe my perspective is a little distorted.
Re:How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code host...
by aleph_minus_one on Saturday March 30, 2024 @02:43PM
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Your perspective is in my experience not distorted. Programming is not a unique culture, but divided into multiple subcultures. Projects that were nearer to the .NET or Windows programming culture indeed often chose CodePlex instead of GitHub while there was a choice.