Microsoft To Release .Net Source Code
First, Sun open sourced Java. Then, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) announced plans to open source its Flex software development kit. Now Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is opening up the .Net Framework to developers, albeit in its own way.
The company Wednesday announced it would later this year be making the source code of the .Net Framework available for viewing, though not for editing.
Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's general manager of the .Net Framework, announced on his blog that the company is allowing developers to "download and browse" the .Net Framework libraries' source code with Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5, and giving Visual Studio 2008 debugging support for the .Net Framework.