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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.
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Open Source protects users' rights. Free Software just protects them better. That doesn't mean Open Source is bad. It just means that you won't spring wood when you read the PR, like you would for Free Software.
I, too, prefer Free Software. But don't shit on Open Source. That's stupid and rude.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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.
I really don't see why so many are ragging on the WinPhone. How many here have actually used one? The wife has one and its quite nice, the UI was easier for her to pick up than either my Android 4.4 or the iPhone 5 she had previously, its got good battery life, excellent speech to text (frankly more accurate than my Android), comfortable in the hand, decent screen, the only real complaint I could level at the thing is that they don't have a flagship that compares with the latest Galaxy or iPhone but if you compare like hardware to like hardware? they run very nicely.
Oh and as an added bonus since MSFT handles all the updates we don't have to worry about the carrier abandoning her or having to find a hacked ROM as I did on my HTC because the phone had support end 3 minutes after it left the factory, in fact hers is on the first round release list so she should get Win10 on release. Previous updates have been as easy as "push button, let phone reboot" without having to actively hunt or did as I had to and look for ROMs with my previous phone. Hell I would have probably went with WinPhone but I like to get customized ROMs with speed tweaks and the like and that is the one place Android has a real leg up, at least for me, but then again I'm not the average phone user.
My current phone (A BLU Studio Mini LTE) has gotten the 4.4.2 update, will it get 5 without me having to find a hacked ROM? Who knows, probably not if history is an indicator, and I've had Android phones that never got a single update from the carrier and were just left to rot. At least with the Lumia that gamble is gone and if they release a flagship phone I have zero doubt I'll be getting one for the wife, she just loves how easy and reliable her WinPhone is.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
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.
Cough up your software with an open source GPL license, and I'll go. Mickeysoft's crap licenses are shit. My time goes either to something that I can use as I like or share with others freely. 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. And that's it.
MIT is a GPL compatible license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
It is what it is.