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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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