Microsoft Not a Cathedral; Open Source Not a Bazaar
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| It's not every day that you see a Microsoft employee demonstrating
| Microsoft software running natively on Linux. Yet that's exactly
| what happened at AJAXWorld here, as Brad Abrams, group program
| manager at Microsoft for ASP.NET AJAX (codenamed Atlas) did today.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3667066
Microsoft joins OpenAjax Alliance
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| With Microsoft, OpenAjax has now pretty much attained critical mass
| in the vendor community. Boloker now wants to boost membership among
| users and organizations outside the US.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=3EAC58B2-BDF8-4D05-9336-33E870AC8E38
A lot of this technology is Linux-hostile (according to one source), but it's
still a win for Open Source. Microsoft has for a long time avoided the
prolific OpenAjax Alliance, hoping it can walk the purely proprietary route
instead (no interoperability and platform independence).
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