Microsoft Open Sourcing .NET

Microsoft announced this morning that the source code for its .NET framework libraries is being opened to the world, allowing outside developers to see inside when developing their own software in the .NET framework.

It's hard to say what the incentive was for this move, it could be that .NET adoption in the developer community has been so small that a drastic step was needed or this could be a strategy to prepare for a big push of SilverLight, Microsoft's new runtime for Rich Internet Applications. The .NET framework is also at the center of Vista, which so far no one has wanted to use at length.

We're still chewing on the significance of this announcement; hopefully some .NET developers can chime in in comments. Update: Unsurprisingly, Mary Jo Foley's All About Microsoft blog has excellent coverage of this announcement. See discussion as well via Techmeme.

微软开放.NET源代码

微软今天早上宣布.NET 框架库源码将向全世界开放，以允许广大的.NET 框架开发者察看其核心代码，从而有助于他们开发自己的软件。 

这很难说微软这一举动的动机是什么，或许是在开发者团队当中，.NET 使用者太少，微软有必要采取这一极端的措施。又或者是微软为了准备推出新一代的富 Web 应用程序(Rich Internet Applications)SilverLight而作的战略部署。到目前为止还是无人问津的Vista,他的核心同样是.NET 框架。

微软这份声明的意义仍然值得我们去思考；希望.NET开发者可以踊跃的讨论一下。

更新：果不其然， Mary Jo Foley的博客 All About Microsoft 已经很好的阐述了这份声明。更多的评论请参看：Techmeme.