Microsoft Open-Sources Windows Bridge For iOS

An anonymous reader writes: Previously known as Project Islandwood, Microsoft today released an early version of Windows Bridge for iOS, a set of tools that will allow developers to port iOS apps to Windows. The announcement reads in part: "We're releasing the iOS bridge as an open-source project under the MIT license. Given the ambition of the project, making it easy for iOS developers to build and run apps on Windows, it is important to note that today's release is clearly a work-in-progress — some of the features demonstrated at Build are not yet ready or still in an early state. Regardless, we'd love for the interested and curious to look at the bridge, and compare what we're building with your app's requirements. And, for the really ambitious, we invite you to help us by contributing to the project, as community contributors — with source code, tests, bug reports, or comments. We welcome any and all participation in building this bridge." The source code is available now on Github.

Comments

Hypocrisy, thy name is Microsoft

[damicatz]

I find it funny that Microsoft basically just "stole" Apple's APIs, especially since Microsoft themselves were arguing that API's should be copyrightable in the Google v. Oracle case.

Re:Open source license and I'll go

[gnupun]

I don't want something that I develop locked up in a vault in Redmond, and some ass hole tell me I can't use software or source code that I wrote.

That would happen only if Microsoft took your code, modified it and created closed source proprietary software with it. Your original code would still be available to you but not the closed source changes made by Microsoft. It seems you're more concerned that someone will profit off your work, while you won't see any money. So you prefer the GPL license so that developers don't make any money, only distributors/packagers, sysadmins and users profit.