Josh Ledgard On MS's Future Open Source Efforts

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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Re:Future Open Source efforts?

[iendedi]

I quote:

Windows Template Library (WTL) is a C++ library for developing Windows applications and UI components. It extends ATL (Active Template Library) and provides a set of classes for controls, dialogs, frame windows, GDI objects, and more.

Looks to me like something completely strapped to Windows. More like example code from VC++ than Open Source, if you ask me.

Re:Future Open Source efforts?

[rokzy]

no.

I got a better one

[Anonymous Coward]

it should be from the soon-to-get-his-ass-fired dept.

or the toes-hanging-over-the-party-line-get-chopped-off dept.

or the "He's a stuntman!"
idealism-is-a-career-stunting-move dept.

or the
we-can-change-the-system-from-the-inside dept. (aka liberal arts dept.)

or the
my-workstation-and-contacts-list-is-under-sur veile nce-from-my-manager dept.

or the
I-wanted-to-be-a-gnu-hacker-but-I-needed-some thing -more -than-ramen detp.

You can poke fun at him, but in the end there is nothing sweeter than advocating open source on an MS payroll. It's like a troll sneaking into heaven and singing up as a choir-boy and singing out of key just to fuck with Jesus' perfect pitch while he's trying to read. It won't change the world but it isn't a bad way to go out.

What A F*%#@'n TURD!

[webzombie]

Come on now. Does he honestly believe that anyone here at /. could give a rats ass about answering his "probing" questions.

Microsoft never ceases to amaze me.

So much money and power and an absolutely VACANT moral barrel!

Way to go Josh - You Fuckin' TROLL!

I'm sure Microsoft will find another "honourable" research partner that would be happy to give you the answers you need! Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge, No What I Mean, No What I Mean.

Fuckin' TROLL!

Re:Office.. don't hold your breath.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, using the dollar sign like that, you know M$FT, is very clever and gives your words a lot of credibility *rolls eyes*

Moron

Nothing new there.

[twitter]

Microsoft is the king of free beer, but that's not enough anymore. Every version of Windoze has been easy to "pirate" and they have been giving it away to "decision makers" forever. That's why it's entrenched in business schools and many big dumb companies. What happened next was date rape and a big hang over. Few people will continue to be fooled when cheaper and better software is all around them.

Nothing short of complete software freedom will gain them much interest from the free software community. Who really wants to donate time or money to the people funding SCO and other nightmares? Even if they did free all of their code it's so tortured that it would take years to tame it and bring it up to par.

What do they have that's worth the effort? Who wants a single user, single screen GUI that's mixed up with low level floppy access? All the real rendering stuff belongs to Nvidia and ATI. Who wants Outlook? Word formats have already been decoded by Sun and friends. IE sucks. If M$ put their codebase up on Sourceforge tomorrow, there'd be an initial flurry of interest, but it would mostly be people looking to make migrating away from Windoze easier.

Twitter: Life and times of a petulant cock-gobbler

[Anonymous Coward]

Twitter, you're a petulant cock-gobbling sycophant to Linux Torvaldyos! Quit taking DP from ESR and RMS's feculent cocks and why don't you try to stop sucking quite so much? Get out of your parents' basement and see the real world - maybe then you'll see how pathetic you sound, with your neverending stream of bullshit about how Microsoft is stalking you. Wasn't it you who said that Microsoft believes your insane ranting is actually a threat to them, so they PAY PEOPLE to reply to you on Slashdot? No sir, I don't get any money. I do it for the love. Someone has to go up against your paranoid whining. So get back in your cage and shut the fuck up already.