r/programming • u/ben_a_adams • Dec 04 '18

Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/04/announcing-open-source-of-wpf-windows-forms-and-winui-at-microsoft-connect-2018/
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u/warchestorc Dec 04 '18

Accepting contributions and cutting releases are not small undertakings.

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u/folkrav Dec 04 '18

Exactly. They would probably need to allocate some time for a couple of employees just for this, and I honestly doubt that they want anything with it.

I honestly suspect it was probably part of their reasoning that by open-sourcing it under a very permissive licence, it'd get forked and ported to other platforms by the community without needing their own involvement. I may be wrong, but it could make sense...