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This demonstrates the importance of documentation in the framework wars. What could Microsoft possibly gain from open-sourcing .NET? They already have a few t
by fit2rule 12y ago
This demonstrates the importance of documentation in the framework wars. What could Microsoft possibly gain from open-sourcing .NET? They already have a few thousand great developers working on their jeweled prize, designed to lure developers to the brand as resolutely, and immutably, as possible.
.NET going open source is Microsoft admitting that, despite its best efforts, developers still want to know whats going on behind the curtain, whether the mirror really works, and just what kind of smoke is being blown up their ass in the effort to capture their minds and bind them to the brand.
- daigoba66 12y agoTo be fair, the source code for most of the core .NET libraries has been freely available under a "reference source license" for a very long time now. You could look behind the curtain, you just can't modify or redistribute.
- fit2rule 12y agoSo it was not really 'open' then, was it? More like "sources available for reading only" ..
- nmeofthestate 12y agoYes, but this open-ness is irrelevant to your point - "developers still want to know whats going on behind the curtain"
- fit2rule 12y agoThen what you're saying is that this is hardly news, and hardly of note in any sense other than they're going to give the community .. what exactly?