Excellent news as always. The opportunity for Microsoft is still huge in this space. They have the opportunity to lead in the community (and I don't mean lead the community) if only they would take it. This is actual product code, so it's stickier to release into community than non-product code like WiX, WTL, and FlexWiki. Go Shawn. Go Jason.
Small editorial note on the article: Microsoft took the C# and CLI specifications to ECMA (and the ECMA technical committee subsequently took the finished ECMA standards to ISO). Rotor (aka the Shared Source CLI) was a working implementation of the ECMA standards on XP, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X.
Links:
- "Microsoft to Release More Source Code?"
- Microsoft and community development
- Rotor (a shared source project)
- The ECMA specifications for C# (ECMA 334) and the CLI (ECMA 335) (freely available)
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