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I can't talk from a consumer perspective, but from a developer perspective, they need to open source everything .NET-related if they want to remain relevant. W
by sker 13y ago
I can't talk from a consumer perspective, but from a developer perspective, they need to open source everything .NET-related if they want to remain relevant.
With Ballmer gone, if people like Hanselman and ScottGu gain more influence within the company, I'm sure we'll see great things being open sourced.
It's hard to shift the company to open source with someone like Ballmer at the top, it would be like admitting defeat to the open source movement, and people in such positions of power never like to admit they were wrong in their strategy. It's human nature, I almost don't blame him.
- JonFish85 13y ago"they need to open source everything .NET-related if they want to remain relevant." Huh? How do you figure?
- Moto7451 13y agoA lot of developers don't trust MS even if they have some really nice tools and a huge platform. Microsoft has a reputation for killing off development platforms when they start thrashing around seeking relevance in some new way. With the shift to Win 8 for example, Silverlight and XNA were axed with little more than the promise that critical bugs and security issues will be fixed. If the platforms were open sourced the community could pick up the slack. The Mono project did that for XNA care of Mono Game. No such luck for Silverlight as Moonlight is dead as well.