On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:27:53 -0600, M. David Peterson
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But putting yourself in IronRuby's Red Slippers for a moment,
To put this another way, JRuby was a successful OSS project *FIRST* which
-- because of this fact -- attracted Sun to bring the project and its two
core contributors (at that time -- if not mistaken, didn't Ola really
begin his core involvement after the acquisition?) in house. The
community didn't have to be convinced of the overall JRuby idea. That had
already happened long before Corporate America began it's lust -> love
fest with the project, gaining not only the already successful OSS JRuby
project, but access to the best and the brightest minds/talent the Java
development community had to offer as a result.
MSFT, on the other, went out and found the best and brightest minds/talent
the .NET development community had to offer -- at least as far as
experience with the Ruby language was concerned -- and then tasked them
with building not only an OSS Ruby implementation for the .NET platform,
but in building an OSS community as well > Both -- for all intents and
purposes -- from scratch.
Two different situations. Two different scenarios. You've done it
successfully from the outside in. How would you do it -- again
successfully -- from the inside out?
--
/M:D
M. David Peterson
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