Microsoft's Open-Source Wiki Tools Target Developers

Posted by dave on Oct 6, 2004 7:30 AM EDT
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Making open-source applications available for .NET will enable Microsoft to elicit interest from developers, who may otherwise be enticed by the ongoing attention to Java, PHP and Perl (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language), which dominate open-source development today. FlexWiki should also help to soften Microsoft's anti-open-source image, and enable the company to gain deep insights into a key open-source issue: the trade-off between the benefits of greater developer and user-community engagement and the drawbacks of decreased control over intellectual property. Gartner believes these issues are driving Microsoft's open-source efforts.

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