"announced" on a blog? and only for *complete* implementations [LWN.net]

"announced" on a blog? and only for complete implementations

Posted Jul 7, 2009 14:29 UTC (Tue) by stevenj (guest, #421)
Parent article: de Icaza: From Microsoft: C# and CLI under the Community Promise

First, take this with a grain of salt because there is apparently no official announcement from Microsoft, only an unaffiliated blog article with a single somewhat ambiguous quote from MS saying only that the "Community Promise is an excellent vehicle."

Second, if the blog is believed, the Community Promise will apply only to the ECMA C# and CLI specifications, not to .NET.

Third, Microsoft's Community Promise contains the somewhat problematic condition for free software:

The CP applies only if the implementation conforms fully to required portions of the specification. Partial implementations are not covered.

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"announced" on a blog? and only for *complete* implementations

Posted Jul 7, 2009 14:44 UTC (Tue) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

> because there is apparently no official announcement from Microsoft

Well, the Port 25 blog post (http://port25.technet.com/archive/2009/07/06/the-ecma-c-a...), which Miguel references and perhaps I should have linked to, is on a Microsoft blog. Your other concerns seem like they may be issues, but I don't think there is too much question about the first.

jake

"announced" on a blog? and only for *complete* implementations

Posted Jul 7, 2009 23:32 UTC (Tue) by SEMW (guest, #52697) [Link]

> First, take this with a grain of salt because there is apparently no official announcement from Microsoft, only an unaffiliated blog article with a single somewhat ambiguous quote

The LWN paragraph links to the Microsoft Community Promise page ( http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp ), which lists C# and the CLI as covered specifications.