MS No Cathedral, Open Source No Bazaar?

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 25, 2007 @12:03AM 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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The Proof Is In The Pudding: Open Source DirectX by lotusleaf · 2007-03-25 01:06 · Score: 5, Informative

Speaking of standards:

* "Microsoft breaks with standards effort" 03-25-2003
* "Microsoft quits W3C standardisation panel" 03/24/2003

How about a free and open standard in gaming?
* "Microsoft DirectX killing innovation" 03-27-2003