Microsoft said Monday that it is dipping a third toe into the open-source waters, adding a collaborative creation program to the list of Microsoft efforts that the company is freely sharing.
The company is making available the code for FlexWiki, software for creating “Wikis”–Web pages designed to cover a topic by allowing any number of users to create and edit content. FlexWiki is the third piece of Microsoft code that the company has released this year under an open-source license, all under the Common Public License (CPL). In April, Microsoft posted its Windows Installer XML (WiX) to SourceForge.net, following up a month later with the posting of the Windows Template Library (WTL) project. Microsoft noted that both of those projects have been in the top 5 percent of SourceForge’s most active projects, with 100,000 copies of WiX having been downloaded, along with 20,000 copies of WTL. FlexWiki will also be made available on SourceForge’s site.
Source: ZDNet
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