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MS No Cathedral, Open Source No Bazaar?

Posted by kdawson on from the says-the-high-priest dept.

AlexGr sends us to InternetNews.com for an account of a Microsoft VP demonstrating Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX product running on Ubuntu at AJAXWorld. In his earlier keynote, Brad Abrams had declared that, when it comes to AJAX, Microsoft is not the cathedral and open source isn't really a bazaar. He noted that ASP.NET AJAX is available under Microsoft's permissive license with full source code. "The Web is built on open standards and we at Microsoft believe that we have to enable those open standards," Abrams said.

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  1. deja vu? by Rixel · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The Web is built on open standards and we at Microsoft believe that we have to enable those open standards," .....and then twist them into a New York hot pretzel, with a dash of moebius strip, then 'reintroduce'.

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  2. Correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The Web is built on open standards and we at Microsoft believe that we have to extend those open
    standards," Abrams said.


    There, fixed spelling for you. ;-)

  3. We are from the Government.. by sycodon · · Score: 2, Funny

    We are from the Government and we are here to help.

    We are from Microsoft and we enable Open Standards.

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  4. Step 2 by db32 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unzip

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  5. Step 3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Profit

  6. Re:In a weird way, it works both ways by WindBourne · · Score: 2, Funny
    What. The. Fuck? MS created AJAX from whole cloth. Your entire post is pure rhetoric and fiction.

    B.S. MS had absolutely NO intentions of doing AJAX. They did not create JavaScript. They had no intention of using Javascript combined with XmlHTTPRequest. XmlHttpRequest was developed to give them a RPC capability for their apps. They had absolutely no intention of using it with their browser. This was a pure OSS idea. That is why MS was the last party to the game WRT ajax.

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