Announced by Scott Guthrie, the VP of the Microsoft Developer Division, and detailed further by Scott Hanselman, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft's Web Platform, Microsoft has started publishing more technologies as fully open-source projects. In his recent blog post, Guthrie detailed how the popular ASP.NET MVC framework, and associated ASP.NET WebAPI and WebPages frameworks are now open-source. He further cemented this by announcing that these projects are no longer licensed using the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL), but are now provided under the Apache License 2.0. These new projects are available online at their new home at CodePlex.
What does this mean at Microsoft? Are we seeing a major shift in future development for a wider selection of Microsoft technologies?
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