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Microsoft To Open Source Some of Silverlight
Kurtz writes with word that Microsoft is about to follow in Adobe's footsteps by releasing the source code to part of its Silverlight technology. The news comes less than a week after Adobe announced plans to open source the Flex SDK. Microsoft is hungry to build the developer base for its rich Internet app tools, if it can.
It's Microsoft, they'll probably release the comments in the code and keep everything else shut in. I mean comments are part of the source code, why not just release those and claim it's open source?
It's not quite a complete lie, but it's underhanded in the evil villian sort of way.
I like muppets.
I mean, call me picky, but shouldn't they finish developing IE to an acceptable standard before they start on a Flash competitor?
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It was probably the printer friendly version that was linked, so it'd make sense to automatically show the print dialog. The alternative would be to have the article on 8 pages each with its own talking smiley pop-up that scares the shit out of you due to its creepy "I wuv you" catchphrase and the fact you forgot that your speakers were on pretty loud.
Why does my post history abruptly stop? I want to laugh at the stupid things I posted as a kid.
Don't worry, they have made a search engine for finding their late and forgotten attempts to copy other software/websites.
.NET backend for Silverlight) at outdoing Adobe Flash Player for consuming the most system resources. So I wouldn't discount them straight away!
Although this time around, Microsoft actually has a pretty decent chance (with the
Microsoft?... Open Source?... Does not compute, does not compute!
#include "bsod.h"
/* anyone remember the days when slashdot allow you to quote pre-formatted text? */
main() { if(running_on_linux()) { crash(horribly, messily); } return proprietary_blob(patented); }
Don't let THEM immanentize the Eschaton!
Ryan T. Sammartino
"Ancora imparo"