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Microsoft Open Sources ASP.NET MVC

Posted by timothy on from the bee-ess-dee-like dept.

Jimmy Zimms writes "Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC is an extension built on the core of ASP.NET that brings some of the popular practices and ease of development that were popularized by Ruby on Rails and Django to the .NET developers. Scott Guthrie, the inventor of ASP.NET, just announced that Microsoft is open sourcing the ASP.NET MVC stack under the MS-PL license. 'I'm excited today to announce that we are also releasing the ASP.NET MVC source code under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). MS-PL is an OSI-approved open source license. The MS-PL contains no platform restrictions and provides broad rights to modify and redistribute the source code.' Here's the text of the MS-PL.

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  1. Wait, April Fool's Day was yesterday.... by davidsyes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh, wait, it must be for April's FOOLS, LOL! So, does it run Linux?

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  2. Uh, yeah.... by tjstork · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    hot of developers spilling out of the Microsoft dam and into the PHP, Perl, Python, Java and Ruby streams

    I'd say you have a ways to go before you get any Windows developer to give up on Visual Studio + SQL Server stack + Windows Server stack.

    You could get some to switch out SQL Server for Oracle or MySQL. Some bolder developers could see switching out IIS for Apache.... But, you are going to have to do an awful lot to get developers to give up Visual Studio for some other environment.

    Unless your IDE is -better- than Visual Studio, nobody is going to switch. And the funny thing is, I think Visual Studio is a beatable target.

    PS. Linux needs a real installer / uninstaller for applications too, and that really means you need to suck it up and implement some sort of a registry for all of your settings. Woops, did I say that?

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  3. Re:Read it PLEASE!!! by Vu1turEMaN · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm not a microwhore, tyvm. But your points blow.

    1. .NET is used by alot of windows developers, and bitching about why they use it and trying to blame MS for developers using .NET instead of java is senseless.

    2. Vista was nearly a complete rewrite of the OS, and the 3 apps rule is for W7's starter edition, which anybody with any sense will not buy. Get your facts straight.

    3. Zune huh....you probably said "hahahahahahahah" cause you failed at pointing out something bad about it. Sure it was a failure, but so are most products. Atleast they gave the portable media market a shot.

    4. MS said that they expected the open source community to make their own version of Silverlight, and they did a few months later...called Moonlight. And its certainly not a replacement for Flash.

    bla bla bla IE sucks....yes we all know. Troll, go lurk moar.