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More on the .NET sourcecode and its 'Reference License'
Today I read an interesting post by Arne Vajhøj in the C# newsgroup. He brought up the point that in the Java research license, which was the license the Java sourcecode was released under before it was released under the GPL, a clause was added...

Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 11:13 AM by FransBouma | 7 comment(s)

Don't look at the sourcecode of .NET licensed under the 'Reference license'
Update: If you think I should be shouting 'awesome' and similar words like most of the .NET community members, please take a walk down the path of 'licenses', something you all should be familiar with in every cell in your body, but by the look of all...

Posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 11:18 AM by FransBouma | 50 comment(s)

The endless fall to uselessness of MS Connect
I ran into a new low for Microsoft Connect product feedback. Check this item (you have to login with your MS Passport/Live ID. I don't know why). The title is "When will .NET 2.0 service pack 1 be out (IF ever) ?", I posted this on April 17th. The title...

Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:05 PM by FransBouma | 13 comment(s)

The reason why OSS isn't big in MS/.NET land? Money!
A couple of people ( Ayende Rahien , Jeremy Miller and David Hayden ) started to wonder why Open Source Software (OSS) isn't that big in Microsoft/.NET land, why the 'big' open source projects in Microsoft/.NET land aren't really big compared to commercial...

Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 10:43 AM by FransBouma | 1 comment(s)

Finally! Microsoft starts VS.NET 2005 Hotfix download pilot program
After nagging about it for a long time, it seems Microsoft finally understood that getting a hotfix for VS.NET 2005 was too cumbersome for a lot of people (outside the US, calling PSS isn't a picknick). So they decided to start a pilot program to see...

Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 10:22 AM by FransBouma | with no comments

What's an MVP? What does 'MVP' really mean?
A couple of days ago, the community learned that Jamie Cansdale , creator of Testdriven.NET wasn't re-nominated for the MVP title. As an explanation from Microsoft , he received a vague email that in the past year, he apparently didn't do enough for the...

Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 11:21 AM by FransBouma | 3 comment(s)

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