“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…”
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