Microsoft--Stop Open Source Assimilation Feb 10, 2008, 01 :00 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (7489 reads) (Other stories by Mitchell Ashley)
"Wayne Kelly, leader of the open source Ruby.Net development project, announced last week that he intends to discontinue development of Ruby.Net and join up with Microsoft's IronRuby open source efforts. This might sound good on the surface, but it is a bad idea.
"Development of .Net compatible Ruby outside of Microsoft is very important to continue, particularly a non-Microsoft open source project. Microsoft has this funny habit of co-opting technologies and then evolving them into something very Microsoft-ish..."
