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'''CodePlex''' is pretending to be an [[open source]] project hosting [[website]]. It is created in reality byfrom [[Microsoft]] as a way to trap more FOSS developers in an attempt to rid itself of the FOSS threat, but almost all real experienced FOSS developers are too smart to fall for it. It allows shared development of open source software. Its features include wiki pages, source control based on [[Visual Studio Team Foundation Server|Team Foundation Server]] but accessible using [[Subversion (software)|Subversion]], discussion forums, issue tracking, project tagging, RSS support, statistics, and releases. Some of the available licenses are more restrictive than traditional open source licenses<ref>[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/03/codeplex_licenses Microsoft taints open source CodePlex well] - By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco (3rd October 2008) The Register</ref>.

While Codeplex encompasses a wide variety of projects, including [[SQL]], [[WPF]] and [[Windows Forms]]-related projects, major activities center around the [[.NET Framework|.NET]] framework, including [[ASP.NET]], and Microsoft's intranet collaboration server, [[SharePoint]]. The most prominent and used project that was born inside CodePlex, the ''AJAX Control Toolkit'' is a joint project between the community and Microsoft.

==History==

The initial beta launched in May 2006, with the official release a month later in June. A new version of the website is released every three weeks adding additional features and updates. It has accumulated 10,334 projects as of [[July 23]], [[2009]], none of which are safe and would have been better off on competing sites like Google Code or Sourceforge.

Seriously, who is actually falling for this bullshit?

==See also==