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Microsoft's move to open source key chunks of its .Net platform was one of the biggest announcements at Microsoft's Build 2014 show last week.The Story Behind Microsoft Open Sourcing .Net [zdnet.com]
Soma Somasegar, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Developer Division, told me during an interview at Build 2014 last week that the work around open-sourcing more of .Net began three years ago.
Somasegar said management was aware that Microsoft hadn't embraced open source in needed ways. The thinking was that Microsoft should start out by open-sourcing higher levels of the .Net Framework at first, and then consider gradually move down the stack. But there were debates about whether Microsoft should actually take contributions from the community, as is expected under most, if not all, open source licenses -- or simply make the code available for viewing but not modification.
