As noted on  TSS.NET and elsewhere, with the upcoming release of .NET 3.5 and VS 2008, Microsoft will reveal the source code for the .NET Framework Libraries. Licensing terms, however, do not allow changes or redistribution of the .NET Framework source code. On his blog, Ted Neward as his usual inimitable take on the matter.

The piece is entitled “Reports of Snowballs In Hell.”

Ted concludes:

All in all, this makes the latest marker in Microsoft’s slow-but-steady shift towards a more open-source-friendly position. Whether or not the developer community meets them halfway, of course, resides entirely with your point of view on the statement, “Microsoft is an evil empire that does nothing good for anybody but themselves”.

Reports of Snowballs - blogs.tedneward.com

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