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> I actually was able to do some open source work with Codeplex

Nice, I guess people in your area had done this before and nobody was scared of sharing code. My experience wasn't so good.

I wrote some BizTalk VS-LoadTest extensions while contracting at Microsoft UK and battled for the best part of 3 months to get permission to share them on CodePlex.

While everyone agreed it was good for the company and the products and an all-round good idea to open source the code, nobody would put their neck on the line and give me written permission to do so. So it didn't happen.



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