[dstone]

I'm pretty amazed by the recent decisions Microsoft has made with respect to open source projects. The level to which they've been cooperating with the community on Mono, jQuery, and the Iron* languages is something I certainly haven't seen before.

And the fact that they're accepting contributions to the NuGet project is pretty awesome too. .NET has needed something similar to gems for a while now.

[iamelgringo]

I'm friends with the Microsoft BizSpark Evangelist in SV, and there's people working very, very hard to communicate and advocate for open source ideology within Microsoft.

There's a lot of cool stuff coming out of Microsoft, and if we support it and encourage is as a hacker community, hopefully, they'll continue down that road.

[jmatt]

Yeah this is surprising as an ex .NET developer. Another packaging project is http://coapp.org/ I believe the coapp project owner is now a Microsoft employee (presumably a good sign even if NuGet wins).

[barrkel]

I'm surprised too, but to be frank almost looks to me like some strings were cut in the puppet-mastery of MS executive management, and in the relative power vacuum, more engineering-focused personnel are doing what they think is best for the tech.

[loewenskind]

It's probably a sign of them settling into their new IBM-like reality.