On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Keith Rome <r...@wintellect.com> wrote:
> With the announcement today of .NET Foundation "umbrella" for all of > Microsoft's open-sourced products, I am curious about what distinguishes > the DLR/IronLanguages work from some of these others? Is it simply > forgotten about by Microsoft, or is there some other reason it is left out > as a black sheep? Or is it a conscious choice to stay disassociated with > the Microsoft ecosystem as much as possible? > > http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/ > No idea, this is the first I've heard of it. I doubt IP has been completely forgotten, but I do feel a bit like this guy<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs>whenever a release comes out. I am having a hard time figuring out what the point of the .NET Foundation is, though, other than "advancing the conversation". I tought they tried this once with the CodePlex/Outercurve foundation and it didn't go anywhere. > > From what I've seen, this set of repositories has been the most "open > sourced" in the spirit of true open source - in that it relies heavily on > (and accepts) pull requests from non-Microsoft persons. The others seem to > often follow more of a "top down" contributions model. > The last change from an MS person (AFAIK) was Tomas' changes to make the DLR work with .NET 4.5 Core, a couple of years ago now. Everything now is from outside MS. - Jeff
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