Code Perspective » Open Source http://codeperspective.ca Coding is awesome Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:51:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Microsoft and Open Source http://codeperspective.ca/2009/04/04/microsoft-and-open-source/ http://codeperspective.ca/2009/04/04/microsoft-and-open-source/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:36:17 +0000 Mark Hazlett http://codeperspective.ca/blog/?p=32 As some of you may know I am an open source advocate. The ability to modify and change the source code of your application to make it work the way you want to is a huge plus. With Microsoft being one of many companies that keeps it’s doors closed when it comes to it’s source code, it makes it extremely difficult to maintain a trustworthy relationship between customers and developers.

Recently however, Microsoft has released the ASP.NET source code. The article found here outlines the details of the release.

I do think that a bigger step is needed to fully gain the acceptance of the open source community. However i do think it is a major step in the right direction. I would like to see another major jump for other companies to go the open source route. Customers having the ability to review the source code to make sure there are not “hooks” inside the code. I think by doing this, customers of Microsoft will have eventually begin to regain the company’s trust. But, I’m not sure it will be in time.

Cheers

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