In the past, special stuff in the CLR (to do with JIT IIRR) that MS licensed from someone else was seen as a roadblock to open-sourcing all of .net (and was why ROTOR had a different JIT to the regular CLR but was in most other ways identical). Plus there is the BCL too, which presumably was built from a similar code-base to the retail BCL at the time SL5 shipped. Are we asking for all of that too? Maybe I should actually read David's post before commenting....
Joseph On Nov 23, 2013 5:30 AM, "Miguel Madero" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think we need the chicken before the egg. Meaning, who will maintain it, > is there a group that is willing to take over? An unmaintained OS project > is just as bad as an unmaintained closed one. > > I think it's doable, but IMO, to make it stronger a request to Open Source > it should be be accompanied from a proposal with a plan and people backing > it up instead of ideas of what could be done. > > PS. It's nice to see some activity on this list. > > Miguel > > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Jordan Knight <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Who owns SL at the moment? Who would make this call? >> >> When WP goes WinRT there is no commercial reason not to... >> ------------------------------ >> From: Scott Barnes <[email protected]> >> Sent: 22/11/2013 9:59 PM >> To: ozSilverlight <[email protected]> >> Cc: ozDotNet <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Is it time to open source Silverlight? >> >> I'll manage it if it does.... i have references... >> >> --- >> Regards, >> Scott Barnes >> http://www.riagenic.com >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:25 PM, David Burela <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/is-it-time-to-open-source-silverlight/ >>> >>> While I was at the MVP summit I started asking around about if it was >>> time to open source Silverlight. My thoughts were if the technology is now >>> considered "done" by Microsoft, then there are few reasons why it couldn't >>> be released to the community to see what they can do with it. >>> It was a solid technology (which isn't suitable in the modern world of >>> the public web), but still has a nice niche on desktop. >>> It could be interesting to see how the community extends it, and perhaps >>> even put onto other platforms (like moonlight did). >>> >>> A basic game engine could be an interesting direction, or using it to >>> embed within desktop applications. >>> The point is, rather than let it rot internally at Microsoft, why not >>> let the community go wild with it before it gets any more stale. >>> >>> >>> http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/is-it-time-to-open-source-silverlight/ >>> -David Burela >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ozsilverlight mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ozsilverlight mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > >
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