[BNM] .NET Source code anyone?!

Rus Hughes rus at digitalbrain.com
Thu Oct 11 13:58:55 BST 2007


wayne at codingvista.com wrote:
> Simon Willison <simon at simonwillison.net> wrote: 
>   
>> Miguel de Icaza (lead developer on Mono) wrote about this recently:
>>
>> http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Oct-05-2.html
>>
>> Short version: the open source community has been carefully avoiding  
>> looking at proprietary code since GNU launched in 1983, so this isn't  
>> a new concern for them and they know how to handle it.
>>
>> [...]
>>     
>
> Ah well - I was wrong about the Mono bit then :)
>
> I for one think this is a good thing, I can step into .NET code as if it were
> mine and see how MS have implemented things. I might not ever be able to
> contribute to Mono but this is a heterogenous issue and one that was unlikely
> to present itself anyway - don't really have time to re-develop Linq from
> scratch - you know how it is!  
>
> w://
>
>   
There's no doubt that it's a good thing, it's great, for .NET developers :)


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