Microsoft Linking Silverlight, Ruby on Rails

CWmike writes "Friday Microsoft will demonstrate integration between its new Silverlight browser plug-in and Ruby on Rails. Microsoft's John Lam, a program manager in the dynamic language runtime team, said in a recent blog item: 'Running Rails shows that we are serious when we say that we are going to create a Ruby that runs real Ruby programs. And there isn't a more real Ruby program than Rails.' Also at the event, Microsoft officials will demonstrate IronRuby, a version of the Ruby programming language for Microsoft's .Net platform, running a Ruby on Rails application."

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That's Right

[Anonymous Coward]

What is the last think Open Sores software linked? Failure to body odor?

SLASHDOT SUX0RZ

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Microsoft linking silverlight, goatse

How do they learn?

[twitter]

By a 24% drop in revenue, but this is nothing new. They have always jumped on things others do, claim to be friends and then do everything possible to claim all the revenue and good will. Real transparency will include:

• Use of real standards.
• Elimination of all DRM.
• Liberation of their source code.

No promise they make means anything if you don't have the four software freedoms on their platform.

Re:How do they learn?

[willyhill]

By a 24% drop in revenue

I hope I can go back over your posting history and see that you commented on how positive it was that they posted record profits last quarter. In the name of fairness, you know. And that would probably lend some relevance to your inclusion of that here, as opposed to making people think that you're doing nothing more than that obnoxious out-of-context bullet point evangelism you seem to enjoy so much.

Use of real standards.

I hope you're not referring to ODF, considering Microsoft have the defacto standard in the office suite platform. That doesn't excuse what they did with OOXML, of course (though it does explain a lot, considering IBM's involvement). What other standards? HTML? CSS? IE7 and 8 are steps in the right direction for them, I think. I'd love to see them support SVG though. They have a lot to do in this area, but they're getting better. It won't happen overnight.

Elimination of all DRM.

You are quick on the draw to complain that the hardware makers are to blame whenever someone mentions a piece of hardware doesn't work with Linux, but you're apparently incapable of making the connection between the media producers and DRM. Why don't you write a few strongly-worded letters to Universal and News Corp. asking them to stop being so paranoid and greedy, and then Microsoft or Apple won't have to add DRM to their operating systems. Unless you want to explain to your cousin Joe Bob why the DVD he bought at Wal-Mart doesn't work on his new computer. I can assure you he won't care a bit about the "DRM is evil" spiel.

But then you're just being intentionally obtuse in the name of the cause, aren't you?

Liberation of their source code.

If this is your measure of their success, I expect they will continue to fail. Release of source code is an altruistic (or practical/commercial if accompanied by the expectation of community involvement) gesture, not a moral imperative.

Psst! Hey, kid, wanna piece of candy?

[littlewink]

I hope no one thinks Microsoft is trying to help anyone other than themselves with this initiative.