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Open-source silver lining in Microsoft's wedding vow to Yahoo?

• chaostheory 19y ago
  in my opinion - if Yahoo accepts; all of the open source projects under its under wing are in danger; I'm already thinking of how to get out of yui...
  • chaostheory 19y ago
    1) Some of Yahoo's major open source projects are java based that alone is bad 2) Instead of supporting major, mature open source projects with good traction in the .NET world (NANT, NHibernate, NUnit, ...) MS instead chose to reinvent proprietary wheels (LINQ, ...)
  • bayareaguy 19y ago
    I hope Pig ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=108224 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=108224 ) escapes too. It looks very promising.
• Hexstream 19y ago
  "I suspect that it would give Microsoft a convenient excuse to reverse course on its open-source antipathy and embrace it" We all know what the 2 other E's are...
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