Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Apr 2008 16:19 UTC, submitted by WillM
Microsoft has "dramatically" changed because of open-source software, the company's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said Thursday as part of a wide-ranging discussion during the annual Most Valuable Professional summit in Seattle. He also talked about Microsoft's mesh concept and the importance of virtualization.
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The Windows Template Library (WTL) is a Microsoft Open Source project that I've had the (mis)fortune of working with on a regular basis. If that project is indicative of how Microsoft views open source, I have nothing good to say.
WTL is a project that is literally dumped onto Sourceforge. There is no documentation, not even an API reference and you will find no reference to it on MSDN. This is terrible, especially for an open source project that is run by Microsoft.
This whole debacle suggests to me that Microsoft is not serious about open source, and it views open source as a dumping ground for unsupported projects. They'll never open source anything of importance to the company.