Saturday, August 13, 2011

CORRECTED: Microsoft Strongly Denies VB 6 Going Open Source, Sources Retract Statement

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CORRECTED: Microsoft Strongly Denies VB 6 Going Open Source, Sources Retract Statement
Redmond Developer News has retracted its earlier report that Microsoft had told MVPs at the Tech-Ed Conference that it planned to open source the Visual Basic 6 programming language.

Microsoft's Doug Seven, director of product management for Visual Studio tools and languages, strongly denied a story reported here earlier that Microsoft planned to open source VB 6.

"There's no more solid source than me. It's not true," he said.

The statement was in response to a story published earlier on this site that said that the rumor of VB6 being opened source, first heard at Tech-Ed and then spread on Twitter, was confirmed by an independent source.


After a Microsoft spokeswoman provided a statement from Doug Seven, RDN contacted the independent source again to re-confirm the reported information. The independent source then retracted his statements.

The original poster on Twitter has also retracted his statement.

RDN regrets for the error.