Microsoft have announced that they will start shipping JQuery as part of Visual Studio and offer full support for it.
They will be shipping the original, open-source, version under the original MIT license. They will not be forking it or changing it and will contribute patches and changes back to the JQuery project under regular patch review process.
I think this is a fantastic idea! I’m glad people in MS sees that not everything has to be invented there and that they are able to a) include open-source stuff in their product and b) not take it over and make an incompatible version.
I believe that this way of doing things is symptomatic to the change in attitude I’ve been seeing in the developer part of Microsoft for some time now, they are more open and communicating better with the community.
Good things ahead.