Microsoft and Nokia Adopt OSS JQuery Framework

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 28, 2008 @11:36PM from the ms-could-become-the-largest-open-source-vendor dept.

soliptic writes "The jQuery blog today announced that 'Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform.' So the open-source javascript framework will be shipped with Visual Studio and ASP.NET MVC. Microsoft's Scott Hanselman notes: 'It's Open Source, and we'll use it and ship it via its MIT license, unchanged. If there's changes we want, we'll submit a patch just like anyone else.'" There's also a story at eWeek about the decision.

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Re:Will they by tcr · 2008-09-29 00:11 · Score: 5, Funny

Well.... a big part of its popularity is that it's a lightweight library, so maybe better if they don't contribute to it... :-)

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Re:But... by wilder_card · 2008-09-29 00:54 · Score: 4, Funny

"Whether you agree with the philosophy of the MIT license or not is out of scope and off-topic."
In other words: It's time to start a flame war! Right here! Right now!