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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. MS has been open source for years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember editing the source for Gorilla.bas

  2. 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.

  3. 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
  4. 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.

  5. 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!!!"

  6. 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?