I've been reading about the ALT.NET movement with interest and a grin on my face. At first it seems like classic Pragmaatis-Coderectus material - you know the type; open-source is by definition better than anything produced by the big bad giant Microsoft, if you aren't Agile you're wrong, if you aren't TDD you've LTP (Lost The Plot - see I can create acronyms too)...

But, of course, this isn't the complete story. The folk that drive such movements are indispensable to the IT community. They are the thinkers, the challengers, the voice of possibility, of how things could be better. And so it seems, with the growing popularity (and evangelical like passion from some quarters) of technologies like Ruby on Rails, MonoRail and design patterns like MVC, Microsoft has listened and taken notice.  

Now it seems that Microsoft are well under way to building MVC support into the ASP.NET framework. At the recent ALT.NET Conference Scott Guthrie announced the direction they are taking. Jeffrey Palermo summarises what to expect here.

And that's exactly how it should work. The voice of the community reaches a consensus and companies like Microsoft listen and act.

Bring it on!