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Microsoft announced Friday that CodePlex, the company's open source project-hosting service, will be closed down.
Started in 2006, the service offered an alternative to SourceForge. It was based initially on Microsoft's Team Foundation Server source control and later added options to use Subversion, Mercurial, and Git.
At the time, there weren't a tremendous number of good options for hosting projects. SourceForge was the big one, but it always seemed light on feature development and heavy on advertising. CodePlex on the Web was much more attractive and less cluttered. The use of TFS for source control meant it also had strong integration in Visual Studio.
But these days, GitHub is the default choice for most open source projects. This applies to Microsoft, too; the company is using GitHub to host projects such as .NET and its Chakra JavaScript engine. Activity on CodePlex has declined, with fewer than 350 projects seeing code commits over the last 30 days.
Source: ArsTechnica
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 03 2017, @04:28AM (7 children)
You had me going there for a second.
We like to whine about Google shutting down services, but I wonder which one out of Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Cisco, Samsung, etc. is the worst offender.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @04:43AM (2 children)
Facebook is the worst. It acquires companies with working products, shuts them down, and replaces them with nothing. At least the rest gave their closed acquisitions and canceled projects at least some semblance of actually trying to make them work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @09:09AM
I'm pretty sure Apple is almost as bad as Facebook, and Microsoft used to be good at it too (maybe they still do).
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 03 2017, @03:32PM
Is that better or worse than Oracle acquiring Sun and 75% of the important people quitting?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday April 03 2017, @04:58AM (1 child)
This Codeplex fiasco isn't the worst of it. Microsoft are about to end support for Windows Vista. Shameful!
https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-vista-enters-last-year-of-extended-support [neowin.net]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by toddestan on Tuesday April 04 2017, @12:58AM
A sad day indeed. Say goodbye to the last supported version of Windows without telemetry.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Lagg on Monday April 03 2017, @07:44AM (1 child)
Funnily enough I know Google does this and I know that they've done it on several occasions. But for some reason the only high profile shutdowns I remember were codesearch, google code and wave.
I think in practice they aren't that bad because they go after things that don't have a large userbase. Projects that people are severely locked into like the core gapps I don't think they'd treat the same way. They probably won't shutdown G+ even though it's not quite successful because it still has a userbase and is actively used by businesses for landing pages for example. Oh and the internal dependencies would probably make it painful anyway.
I don't keep up with Cisco much since I don't do that kind of admin nearly as much as I used to. But as far as I'm concerned they shut down linksys. And that's terrible. They've also been buying shit up and then doing literally nothing else with it since 2012. Or in some cases just buying it and making it look uglier and that's about it [opendns.com]. Certainly as far as pointless acquisitions go they're one of the worst.
Related note: Microsoft created, announced, launched and shutdown a new social media site all before anyone else even knew it existed. so.cl
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(Score: 2) by termigator on Monday April 03 2017, @07:56PM
Cisco buys up stuff to kill competition. They acquired Linksys cuz folks could by a low-price linksys router, install open source firmware and get equivalent features of the high-priced Cisco products. IIRC, after they acquired Linksys, they crippled various products so folk could not customize the firmware.