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Baby steps in opening the product

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As you all know, we are working through all the issues associated with moving the product from a revenue model to an 'open' model.   That will all take place with the next release as promised earlier.  In the interim, we are taking some steps with the 3.0 product which is available for use in development and products as before.  To faciliate the broadest use of the platform, we are making the porting kit available as a free download from the Microsoft Download Center - the same place where the SDK is avilable.  There is a Service Pack that was just released for the 3.0 porting kit.  We are not going to take the time to merge those two releases at this time so anyone wanting to start with the porting kit will have to download the porting kit and then install the Service Pack over that.  The link for the new porting kit download is:  https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=42ce8508-ff00-4ab8-8495-df587d77a8f2.  Go ahead and pass this on.  Thanks

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  • Anonymous
    June 15, 2009
    PingBack from http://blog.a-foton.ru/index.php/2009/06/16/baby-steps-in-opening-the-product/

  • Anonymous
    June 15, 2009
    Petit à petit, le .NET MicroFramework va devenir Open Source. C’est ce qu’annonçait Colin Miller, la

  • Anonymous
    June 16, 2009
    Is this still timebombed? Whats going on in the licensing department?

  • Anonymous
    June 16, 2009
    The blog lines call this a baby step but I find releasing the Porting Kit for free a big step. I hope people or companies see the potential of this and build/release their port. Maybe it helps that the can peek into the source and look if they are up to the task. I see a new great future for Micro Framework!

  • Anonymous
    June 16, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    June 16, 2009
    Its great, you have ability to try to port to other platforms and reuse functionality. All they are saying is 30 days for the development image deployed on the target board, if its production then might as well buy the license and get additional support from MS off course :-).

  • Anonymous
    June 20, 2009
    I was just curious, how is the deployed image time bombed, there is no RTC on the board. How does it keep track. :-)

  • Anonymous
    June 23, 2009
    What does this mean for older hardware? Will this open up the possibility for updating .netMF version 2.0 hardware to the most current? I'd really like to try out the latest .netMF on my old 2.0 hardware. How hard would it be to do this?

  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2009
    Carlo asked about updating hardware with a 2.0 port to it.     The best option is to check with the vendor and see if they dont have plans to update it themselves.     The next best option is to see if that port is part the the porting kit samples.  If so, you have a good start.     If neither of the first two options is open, you still have the option of starting your own port.  We woudl of course encourage you to share that with teh community so that everyone doesn't have to repeat that work.       If you have any questions about avialable ports to specific boards, you can 'Ask Colin'.

  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2009
    Does Microsoft plan to open to CLR source code? This is important for supporting processors, compilers etc. that are not currently support by the Micro Framework

  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2009
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