Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell
Interviewee: Leon Shklar
In this interview we talk with Leon Shklar – EVP of Media Technology for Reuters. In specific, we talk about:
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Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell.
Interviewees:Shawn Burke.
In this interview with Shawn Burke of Microsoft we asked him about:
- Shawn’s motivation for helping to make the framework source code available.
- Whether there are any limits on who gets access to the source code.
- Whether there was any internal resistance initially to providing the framework source.
- Why Microsoft doesn’t just provide a zip for the source.
- Whether Microsoft’s individual developers write code differently knowing that their actual source might be available for the world to see someday.
- Whether or not Microsoft is planning on making available other development artifacts such as test scripts, threat models, etc.
- Whether a closed source company or an open source company is better positioned to support external developers who need access to the source for a given project.
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According to Scott Guthrie, Microsoft will make the source for the upcoming .NET Framework 3.5 available under the Microsoft Reference License. This isn’t an open-source license (i.e. you couldn’t fork the code), but it is still a “good thing” in that developers can learn from the source and have an improved debugging experience with the ability to step-into the framework code.
Update: It seems that this isn’t seen as happy news by all. There’s an article on eWeek that’s just too irrational and frothing to pass up, claiming that this is all a ploy by Microsoft to kill Mono. As Microsoft is officially supporting Novell’s efforts in porting Silverlight to Linux (on top of Mono), the evidence would indicate that Microsoft is doing this to support .NET developers, and not as some clever conspiracy to kill off Mono.
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