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Josh Ledgard On MS's Future Open Source Efforts

Posted by timothy on from the inspect-gift-horse-carefully dept.

prostoalex writes "Josh Ledgard from Microsoft, the developer responsible for open-sourcing WiX and WTL, is looking for opinions on what Microsoft should do next in regards to the open source movement that he himself established within the company. "Would you have interest in working on these types of projects with Microsoft? If not, what could entice you? If so, what would be your motivation?", asks Josh." Update: 08/24 19:04 GMT by T : As Ledgard writes on his site, "I am NOT the person responsible for the WIX/WTL projects. I cite them as examples and am working with people who where responsible for those projects to enable more of the same for the groups I work in." Sorry for the misattribution!

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  1. Office.. by GoMMiX · · Score: 2, Funny

    Open source MS Office. :)

    1. Re:Office.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Nah, just Clippy.

    2. Re:Office.. by Finuvir · · Score: 4, Funny

      Unbelievable. People want the specs for .doc so they can build interoperating software. Your response is to use COM, which requires that you have Word installed. Have you personally ever said anything dumber than that? If so, what was it?

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      Why is anything anything?
  2. MS has been open source for years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember editing the source for Gorilla.bas

  3. Quick and obvious answer ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    If not, what could entice you?

    Women. Lots of women. Covered in baby oil, writhing around me as I did the work for Microsoft.

    1. Re:Quick and obvious answer ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Be careful what you ask for. You may get it and live to regret it.

      According to this story, if you ask Microsoft for lots of women, you'll get a lot of bitches.

      Do you *really* want that? ;-)

  4. Free beer! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny


    If he wants free-as-in-speech contributions, he should dole out some free-as-in-beer. Everyone knows that beer looseneth the tongue.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  5. I know! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    how about that nifty thing Microsoft patented?
    Oh, yeah: sodu, I immagine great things for that ;)

  6. Well... by Aldric · · Score: 5, Funny

    They could stop being evil for a start. Those sessions in the boardroom that end with Bill Gates going "Bwahahahah" really have to stop.

  7. web pages by suezz · · Score: 1, Funny

    stop telling/teaching developers to code ie only web pages - and while your at just dump ie - it is trash and really servers no purpose but a beehive for spyware, virueses, and trojans. also - how about releasing the patent for the todo list - my wife hates paying everytime she makes a grocery list.

  8. Someone Needs To Sit Him Down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone needs to

    1) sit him down
    2) quietly cup their mouth as they bend down to whisper something in his ear
    3) then scream at the top of their lungs...

    "WE DON'T LIKE, WE NEVER LIKED YOU, AND WE NEVER WILL!!!"

  9. Re:OpenSource IE by Neomar · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yea, I would like to read code that makes me laugh once again. And some phrases like "What? This did work? No way!" while reading it would be obligatory as well.

  10. Re:No Interest Whatsoever. by lwagner · · Score: 1, Funny
    Their [Microsoft's] mass wealth distributed

    Instead of a violent solution (ripping them up, distributing their wealth, etc. etc. How about just saying, "Stick to what you know and do 'well'. Operating systems and MS Office."

  11. Re:Talk about aiming to high by HBI · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would it be ok to continue pillaging, though?

    Thank you.

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    HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
  12. Minesweeper by Yrd · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think they should open source Minesweeper. And possibly Solitare, Spider and FreeCell. I know there are good GPLed implementations of it, but it would be nice to see how Microsoft's ones work.

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    Miri it is whil Linux ilast...