Microsoft flexes more Open Source muscle

I have been saying it for awhile now. Microsoft is hoping to battle Open Source on two distinctive fronts. The first is through their “media campaign” and the second is by beginning to creep into Open Source waters themselves. According to CNET, looks like the creeping has begun to pick up the pace a little bit.

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.