From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-10-24T06:04:16+09:00
Subject: Re: IronRuby...will it be like J++?

Greg Donald wrote:
> On 10/23/07, John Lam (DLR) <jflam@microsoft.com> wrote:
>> It is absolutely our intention to enable Rails running on IronRuby. If Rails doesn't
>> run, how could our implementation be considered a compatible implementation?
> 
> Why not contribute to the existing Ruby project instead?  That's how
> _real_ open source development is done.  Making a M$ version of Ruby
> doesn't help Ruby much at all.
> 
> I don't understand your apparent need to reinvent every wheel you see.

Real open-source develoment does not require everyone contribute to the 
same codebase, especially when their design requirements or project 
goals differ. If that were the only way to do "real" open source 
development, we'd all be stuck using XFree86, vi (not vim), various 
under-powered shells, and TWM. Innovation and openness do not require 
boxing yourself into pre-existing implementations.

- Charlie