When I texted Sam Ramji to let him know about Sandcastle, he quickly texted back that he would look into it, I figured that a) it hadn’t yet hit anyone’s radar at Microsoft and b) that he’d fix it.
Fix it, he did. As Mary Jo Foley notes, it was “doubtful [that] Microsoft was willing to risk the wrath of the OSI over a documentation compiler.” I’d go one step further. Once alerted to Sandcastle’s violation and to the importance thereof, it was doubtful that Microsoft’s Sam Ramji and Co. would be interested in the code, however important/non-important it might be.
Sam gets open source. He’s not always supported in this understanding by the larger Microsoft entity, but Sam gets it. His apology to the OSI is direct, concise, and appropriate…
Fix it, he did. As Mary Jo Foley notes, it was “doubtful [that] Microsoft was willing to risk the wrath of the OSI over a documentation compiler.” I’d go one step further. Once alerted to Sandcastle’s violation and to the importance thereof, it was doubtful that Microsoft’s Sam Ramji and Co. would be interested in the code, however important/non-important it might be.
Sam gets open source. He’s not always supported in this understanding by the larger Microsoft entity, but Sam gets it. His apology to the OSI is direct, concise, and appropriate…
Link: news.cnet.com
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- Open Source
