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Eljay-Adobe

First question...

The Midori project had a lot of wonderful potential. Joe Duffy wrote up a lot of fascinating information about Midori in his blog.

Any chance of the programming language that was created for Midori making its way back into .NET?

Second question...

Several core technologies for .NET have become open source -- which is both unexpected and fabulous. One piece of superb technology that has not been made open source (yet?) is WPF.

Is WPF slated to be made open source any time soon?

Without WPF, .NET/Mono projects are significantly tougher to do cross-platform. (Say, in contrast to Java and JVM projects.)

I presume that there is a strong dependency of WPF upon DirectX, which may be what hinders WPF from becoming open source.