Flashcomguru.com: Parts of Silverlight to be Open Sourced

Posted At : April 30, 2007 1:30 PM | Posted By : Stefan Richter | Related Categories: General

At least that's what Heise.de, a german tech portal, reported yesterday. The announcent has also been spread via Yahoo News.
Make up your own mind but I find this borders on embarrassment. I'm not sure if Adobe saw this coming and got its Flex announcement out earlier (I suspect not though) or if Microsoft is playing catch up once again but in any case this is certainly starting to turn into a right armwrestling match now...

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Silverlight is WPF/E (Windows Presentation Foundation) rebranded, and is based on .NET

Because of this they can't really open source it, maybe just some non-essential libraries.

Adobe has opened their compiler and debugger; I really doubt MS is going to open their C# compiler (it is free as part of the .NET Framework, but not open AFAIK)

# Posted By Armand | 4/30/07 3:00 PM

What do you make of this?

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# Posted By JT | 4/30/07 5:14 PM

ah so that is where Kurt had his amunition from - the MS marketing dept. Well I said to that what I had to say in this post http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2007/4/24/Si...

Humbug basically, let MS spread misinformation and let me concentrate on my work. I wonder why they have omitted for example the number of discovered vulnerabilities in the .NET framework versus the Flex framework (or entire Flash platform for that matter).

# Posted By Stefan | 4/30/07 5:34 PM

I liked your rebuttal, Stefan.

# Posted By JT | 4/30/07 5:38 PM

Microsoft tends to discover and fix their security vulnerabilities quite quick now, they have certainly improved a lot in that area, its just that some people still do not want to believe it. On the server side .NET is certainly nothing worse than PHP in terms of security.
Unlike the browser war back then I feel that we will be the winners this time, having companies battling for our preference and improving their products. Both competitors have learned from the past.

# Posted By Jan Pies | 5/1/07 10:09 PM

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