Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Nov 2008 06:45 UTC, submitted by pablo_marx
Microsoft has released an initial release of version 2.0 of the Singularity operating system (research development kit, as it likes to call it). Singularity is a microkernel research operating system, where the kernel, drivers, and applications are all written in managed code. Singularity is released under a shared source academic license, and you can do whatever you want with it, except making money (simply put).
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That's great. I hope Microsoft aren't expecting to see any outside code contributions, or even people doing anything with it. Rotor was a classic example in that regard.
Within a Microsoft controlled environment, possibly. The MS-PL code you see dotted around is not coming out of a .Net environment any time soon, and if you come up with a good project then Microsoft will merely come up with something closed and integrated with the next version of Visual Studio and leave your code to stagnate. It's certainly happened.
Congratulations. You just did free market research for Microsoft. I'm stunned at how much people love getting hit over the head with a frying pan, and it has even dawned on Joel Spolsky how poor the relationship is for you as a developer.
So the code they produced in Rotor helped them create a Mac version of the CLR? Errrrr, the whole point of opening source code is that you give people the freedom to do lots of things with the code, they do lots of things you could never have thought of and in return you get those ideas back and the code for them.
They're all projects funded by Microsoft.
I just can't see Microsoft having any kind of real open source community with that kind of unequal relationship, and as far as I can see, both the public and academic licenses are little more than an exercise to give the impression of 'opening source'. The only one who is going to be motivated to write MS-PL licensed code is Microsoft.