Who owns it? it's owned by the Windows team now (well sort of ..given XAML from memory got moved under them and now the Windows Phone and Windows teams all belong to the same family).
The plan anyone puts forward will have to be carefully crafted and assuming the teams in charge aren't smart enough to see you coming ;) ... for instance the slightest hint it would end up as a low level virtual machine for XAML/C# to exist in any device that doesn't start with Windows would be the first issue at hand. Then would come gaming engines mutating it beyond enterprise application(s) such as Unity3D etc all using it as a nice tidy 2D rendering platform to help out on some of the heavy lifting in gaming. It could be dangerous for Microsoft but you'd win more in developer and XAML/C# mind share assuming Microsoft still rates that as a worthy investment beyond just the usual ASP.NET rhetoric. Microsoft seems to be a services/hardware business now so unless the OSS benefits those two levers... it's just simply a case of waiting for the corpse to decay now *sadly*. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Miguel Madero <m...@miguelmadero.com> 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 <jak...@gmail.com> 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 <scott.bar...@gmail.com> >> Sent: 22/11/2013 9:59 PM >> To: ozSilverlight <ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com> >> Cc: ozDotNet <ozdot...@ozdotnet.com> >> 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 <david.bur...@gmail.com>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 >>> ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com >>> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ozsilverlight mailing list >> ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com >> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > >
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