Innovation – Miguel de Icaza

Dana Blankenhorn comments on the the Moonlight 2.0 release and says:

It’s the kind of open source success story Microsoft wants publicized. Microsoft innovates, open source copies.

It’s not the kind of open source story open source needs, however.

What open source needs is real innovation, created by teams who may or may not represent Microsoft’s fierce competitors. This can be hard to deliver, and Microsoft would like us all to know resistance in this case is futile.

A few points.

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