Microsoft has unveiled a number of new details about Silverlight the company’s new Flash competitor. In series of announcements at the ongoing Mix 07 conference, Microsoft revealed that portions of the new development platform would be open source.Specifically, the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) component of Silverlight will be released under an open source license. The DLR allows developers to write in dynamic languages like Ruby or Python but then compiles them into .NET code. The open source announcement seems to be aimed at drawing in outside developers and given that Adobe recently release large portions of Flash as open source projects, Microsoft’s move seems almost inevitable.

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