[BNM] .NET Source code anyone?!

[Antony Jones]

> > 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.

Well, essentially Microsoft have implemented yet another 'innovative'
feature that has been present in other languages (php, ruby, java) since
day 0. I'm happy that it's happened for the .NET developers, but if
they're expecting a f&(*ing award for it, they can look to someone else.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org [mailto:bnmlist-
> bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of wayne at codingvista.com
> Sent: 11 October 2007 13:41
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] .NET Source code anyone?!
> 
> 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!
> 
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