PatternShare

The Pattern Share website was the first Microsoft property to promote the Creative Commons license. Authors and publishers were skeptical.

Martin Flower said, "Microsoft have released a new community resource called PatternShare. The idea is to bring together pattern summaries from many pattern authors and provide a platform for discussion and further exploration of the interconnections between them. Much of the work was led by Ward Cunningham, whose pattern lineage is second to none. You'll find patterns there from myself, GOF, POSA, Hohpe/Woolf, Evans, and Microsoft." See bliki post.