.NET Source Code to be Released

By on 10/3/2007

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx

Wow. While this is awesome and all, I wonder how many hours of productivity will be lost, collectively speaking. Think about it, some winforms control starts acting funny ... not doing what you expect. I guarantee that tons of people are going to be debugging into the .NET framework libs to see if the bug is in there. And I can almost certainly guarantee that Microsoft's code is less buggy than yours ;-)

This is definitely an interesting move, but probably not as exciting as most people think it is ... because really, any time you spend stepping through their code, is time wasted.

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