Microsoft's CodePlex foundation CodePlex.com has <ahref="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/codeplex/archive/2010/09/06/codeplex-com-donates-25-000-to-mercurial-project.aspx">announcedthe donation of $25,000 to support the development of the Mercurial sourcecode management system. "While Team Foundation Server is still themost used version control system on CodePlex, our users are clearlybenefiting from having access to Mercurial for their open sourceprojects. The CodePlex team is happy to be able to offer our community ofmore than 17,000 projects a choice. With Mercurial as an important featureof CodePlex, we are excited to be making this donation to help support theMercurial project."

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