<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nicolai Moles-Benfell</b> <<a href="mailto:n.molesbenfell@gmail.com">n.molesbenfell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">This is Microsoft's first open source project</blockquote>
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<div>This is not really true, depending on what you mean; I think it's been over two years since WiX was made open source.</div></div>
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<div>I have to agree that the original poster's inclusion of the text</div>
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<div>I know there's always thoughts about secrecy and springing the next big<br>software surprise on the world when working at Microsoft, but secrecy is<br>poison to an OSS community. </div></blockquote></div>
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<div>does not speak well for his intentions. But if you remove this one sentence, his concerns seem pretty reasonable.</div>
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<div>I think some of what we're seeing is a result of IronRuby's dependence on the DLR -- which appears to be far from finalized, and which is not going to be driven by the community at all.</div>
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<div>Curt Hagenlocher</div>
<div><a href="mailto:curt@hagenlocher.org">curt@hagenlocher.org</a></div>