01 May 2007 ~ 2 Comments

Microsoft is Desparate for Developers and Attention

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According to this story, Microsoft is preparing to open source parts of their recently announced Silverlight framework. Why do I get the feeling that Microsoft has a team of people sitting around waiting for Adobe to do anything noteworthy so that they can immediately start working on copying it?

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  • Microsoft Dupe Squad

    Hello,

    My name is Coto Phopier, I run the Microsoft Dupe Squad, and my team is tasked with copying other noteworthy products and innovations, and then slapping Microsoft’s name on them. I’m responsible for such Microsoft atrocities^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hsuccesses as XFS, Liquid, and now most recently, Silverlight! I’d like to also announce that we are open sourcing the CLR, which by the way mono had already almost completely implemented. Oh and don’t forget IronPython, which we claim to be open sourcing but what we really did was hire the guy who wrote it and took it over, once we owned it, we added a more restrictive and not OSI approved license (Microsoft “Permissive” License). So, I just want to let you know that we’re in it for the little guy, so hurry up and buy Silverlight before we stop supporting it! (and that may be sooner than you think)

    - dupe squad out

  • http://www.hi_I_am_Microsoft_and_copy_other_peoples_stuff_and_hit_them_over_the_back_of_the_head_with_money_bags.biz Microsoft Dupe Squad

    Hello,

    My name is Coto Phopier, I run the Microsoft Dupe Squad, and my team is tasked with copying other noteworthy products and innovations, and then slapping Microsoft’s name on them. I’m responsible for such Microsoft atrocities^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hsuccesses as XFS, Liquid, and now most recently, Silverlight! I’d like to also announce that we are open sourcing the CLR, which by the way mono had already almost completely implemented. Oh and don’t forget IronPython, which we claim to be open sourcing but what we really did was hire the guy who wrote it and took it over, once we owned it, we added a more restrictive and not OSI approved license (Microsoft “Permissive” License). So, I just want to let you know that we’re in it for the little guy, so hurry up and buy Silverlight before we stop supporting it! (and that may be sooner than you think)

    - dupe squad out