Microsoft forms new open source foundation

摘要

Microsoft has founded and is providing the funding for a new nonprofit foundation aimed at bringing open source and proprietary software companies together. According to its Web site, the Code-P ex Foundation "will complement existing open source foundations and organizations, providing a forum in which best practices and shared understanding can be established by a broad group of participants, both software companies and open source communities." CodePlex has for some time been the name of the site on which Microsoft hosts open source projects. Microsoft contributed $1 million and the CodePlex name to the foundation, which will license that name back to the CodePlex Web site so it can continue using it.