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Different divisions have had different stances on open source code for a long time. Somewhere I still have the t-shirt from our first "Open Source Day" event ba
by vtbassmatt 9y ago
Different divisions have had different stances on open source code for a long time. Somewhere I still have the t-shirt from our first "Open Source Day" event back in 2008 (and it's not like that was the first time any MS employee had ever considered using open source). Things are a lot more standardized now, with a big push from both the top and the bottom to use open source wherever it makes sense. Why reinvent the wheel?
- sriram_sun 9y ago> Why reinvent the wheel? Look who's talking :)! Wasn't WiX released and developed as an Open Source project by MS?
- krylon 9y agoIIRC, it was the first open source project started by Microsoft / by a Microsoft employee. As a German, I find the name super cringeworthy, but it makes me giggle every now and then.