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Posted Aug 14, 2007 4:42 UTC (Tue) by sanxiyn (guest, #44599)In reply to: Microsoft's position isn't anti-open-source, it's against their competitors (esp. GPL) by okeydoke
Parent article: Two Microsoft licenses submitted for OSI approval
"No, Microsoft've not created IronPyton, Microsoft bought it."
Microsoft bought IronPython 0.6, developed it further for more than 3 years, and released IronPython 1.0 and subsequent versions. In my book that qualifies as "creating IronPython".
Posted Aug 14, 2007 9:24 UTC (Tue)
by arcticwolf (guest, #8341)
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Y'know, unless this was intended to be ironic, you may have a career as Rove's successor if you can make claims like that with a straight face.
Posted Aug 14, 2007 9:50 UTC (Tue)
by sanxiyn (guest, #44599)
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Let's review:
A: Microsoft created some open source software programs like IronPython.
Of course developing further is not creating, but I hope the context is obvious (creating some open source code) to any readers.
Posted Aug 16, 2007 8:46 UTC (Thu)
by ekj (guest, #1524)
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"Microsoft bought IronPython 0.6 [...] In my book that qualifies as 'creating IronPython'."IronPython
It wasn't intended to be ironic. How doesn't 3 years worth of development qualify as "creating some open source software programs"?IronPython
B: No, Microsoft bought IronPython.
C: Microsoft created IronPython in the sense that they developed it further after buying.
D: Developing further is not creating. Are you being ironic?
C: ???
Because people generally consider "create" as in made it come into being. So it's strange to say someone *created* something when that something existed before they even touched it.
If you'd written: They made major *improvements* to IronPython. We'd have agreed. (well, atleast I would've)
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