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Now that you work for Microsoft, is Indy dead?

For some reason people think that now that I work for Microsoft that I have to leave the Indy Project because its open source or because its Delphi. Others think that there is now some covert plan for me to stay on, but slowly kill it from the inside. The first reaction is undersandable, but untrue. The second one is absurd.

Since when do you work for Microsoft???

I joined Microsoft in late September 2005. For more details see my recent tech blog entry, Yes I really do work for Microsoft.

Microsoft's Position on Open Source

Microsoft in my opinion is not conveying its position on open source properly. Much of this I think is caused by the misunderstanding of exactly what open source is by many of those in Microsoft. I will be blogging on this in the near future on my MSDN blog. For now let me say that Microsoft is not against all open source, especially community based efforts such as Indy. In fact Microsoft has similar projects but they often use the words "Shared Source" or "Community Source".

Indy will continue

Indy will continue as before, in fact I expect it to become a bit more active. Even if I left the Indy project there is a very large and active team behind Indy that is fully capable of operating and proceeding without me.