On: Contributing to the F# Language, Library and Tools

[bunderbunder]

It doesn't hurt that the same faction that's been pushing for more openness is also delivering some of the best revenue growth within the company. Both directly and indirectly - SQL Server's a pretty solid DBMS, but I'm not sure there are a whole lot of compelling reasons to pick it over one of its competitors if you aren't using .NET.

[hkphooey → bunderbunder]

How will Apple respond, if at all?!

Steve Jobs promised that FaceTime would be an open protocol... never happened.

AirDrop is yet another closed protocol.

XPC is a new protocol for sandboxed processes to communicate with each other, it's basically distributed objects. Again, a secret even though things like CORBA, Java RMI, etc. have been around for years.

[cgh → hkphooey]

You are talking protocols vs code. Let me know when MS opens up AD, SMBv3+, etc.

[bunderbunder → cgh]

A fair bit of it is here, including stuff for Active Directory (though I don't know enough on the subject to say whether any bits are missing) and SMB3: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc216517.aspx

[NicoJuicy → bunderbunder]

Subjective reason, i don't know if it's the case in real world.

But SQL Server Management Console supports obdc, LocalDB (like SQLLite) and SqlServer (MySQL) at once.

But it's on the Microsoft platform though.. I wouldn't know another reason.