As Edd mentioned in his brilliant entry, IronPython was released as open source. Perhaps just as interesting is the fact that it seems that Jim Hugunin will be working at Microsoft:
“His charter: to work towards a production-ready IronPython, and more broadly to improve the state-of-the-art of dynamic languages on the CLR. The open source crowd needed a minute to digest the second announcement, but then applauded some more.”
Tags: Mono
July 30th, 2004 at 1:06 pm
It would appear that Microsoft is quite quick to recognise the importance of an powerful non-proprietry alternative langauge for the CLI. After all, wouldn’t be great if open source developers could take advantage of the Mono platform, but with a drastically reduce chance for patent infringement or for a sudden need for royalties.
I just wonder how long it takes Microsoft to Patent Jim’s hard work out of the reach of the open source community.