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Microsoft To Open Source Some of Silverlight

Posted by kdawson on from the short-on-ideas dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Ohhhhh Sources by Heir+Of+The+Mess · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read this article http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2123859,00.as p as it's a bit more interesting. The open source bits are the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and the IronPython language. The DLR sits on top of .NET, so if you are using Mono and IronPython, then I would assume that you would then have all the source from top to bottom.

    The MS stuff is here http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython

    This time I even checked my links :-)

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  2. Re:Ohhhhh Sources by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Informative

    The OpenLazlo TFA mentioned in passing looks kind of interesting, at least enough to check out further. The source for their demos looks pretty clean and straightforward.

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  3. Silverlight In Action by N8F8 · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=3045 08

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    1. Re:Silverlight In Action by bsantos · · Score: 3, Informative

      Lots of people on here worried about interoperability, cross platform runtimes and the likes, but those comments on msdn show that those using MSFT technology couldn't care less. *sigh*

    2. Re:Silverlight In Action by N8F8 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Before you jump on the MS bashing bandwagon please take a look at the linked video. Even better, download the client plugin and view the demos. It's cross platform and supports a ton of languages including C#, Ruby, Javascript, etc.

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  4. Re:Ohhhhh Sources by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Informative

    IronPython was already open source before Microsoft got to it. It started out as an independent project that's obviously been acquired by Microsoft. They even changed the license from the Common Public License, which OSI-approved, to the Microsoft Permissive License, which is not.

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  5. Re:Ohhhhh Sources by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF · · Score: 2, Informative

    The companies involved in this shit include: IBM, Sun, Apple...

    Wow, I'm not sure how you fault Apple in this regard. They actually shipped TPM enabled machines for some time, but never used the TPM in their OS or software, only opening it up for developers interested in doing encryption with it and eventually dropping it due to lack of interest. They did implement EFI, but there is no indication of using it for trusted computing either only for a modern replacement to BIOS.