Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Jun 2008 18:09 UTC, submitted by wakeupneo
"It's official: Microsoft will not accept any external code contributions to its planned Dynamic Language Runtime, which will run Microsoft's new scripting languages for the web and Silverlight content on .NET. Microsoft will, though, continue to accept source-code contributions to its slowly emerging implementation of Ruby for .NET, IronRuby. Contributions are helping to build IronRuby and shepherd the language towards the first-full release. The Register has learned, meanwhile, that Microsoft will start accepting external contributions to its other great scripting language project, putting Python on .NET - IronPython - in the "near future". The promise by Microsoft IronRuby lead John Lam comes nearly a year after the topic was first raised. The reason Microsoft decided to leave the DLR closed, despite taking contributions to the languages that will run inside it, is to protect itself from unwanted licenses and IP claims."
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RE: Keep off the Grass
by PlatformAgnostic on Sun 15th Jun 2008 21:46
in reply to "Keep off the Grass"
Member since:2006-01-02
Why are you so willing to attribute to Microsoft's malice things which you are perfectly willing to accept from many other companies? The policy is obviously one of "look but don't touch." It's very similar to the approach Apple and Sun and others adopt for their products.
I haven't read the specifics, but it seems like the DLR still is under a license that would allow Mono or other runtimes to use it and modify their own versions of it. Microsoft seems fairly adverse to taking code from other people without a formal licensing agreement and some sort of payment.
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2005-07-06
It's OK for us to accept contributions for things like IronPython and IronRuby, because these are areas where we are behind and need all the help we can get to persuade you to run your Python and Ruby code on our platform. However, where our technologies are concerned, get off our lawn. As far as I know, projects like Mono have relied on the current (MS-PL) DLR source code to run IronPython, Ruby and Moonlight, and this is the predictable equivalent of them having their balls squeezed. Yes, certain things might be open source, but we're going to set fire to the surrounding area (as the Romans used to do) so you can't get off our platform.
This has absolutely nothing do with IP or licenses, and everything to do with control. I can't think of anything more predictable than that. The sun has less chance of coming up in the morning.