: Microsoft open sources some of .net
"D. Hugh Redelmeier" <[email protected]>
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<http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-open-sourcing-of-net-the-back-story-7000028109/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61> <http://www.cnet.com/news/microsofts-3-year-journey-to-an-open-source-net/> I don't know what to make of the move. Partly because I don't touch that world. Miguel de Icaza was there for the announcement. He's even closer to becoming a Microsoft employee :-) Ximian's moral successor Xamarin is involved. The open sourcing of the C# and VB compilers might undercut Xamarin's own compiler. Isn't .net left out of the new world formerly known as Metro? Again, an area where I have no knowledge. Microsoft says that they are not abandoning .net. Windows developers would probably be livid after they got burned by the intro of .net, killing their old ecosystem. So: does this mean anything at all for Linux? Of course we don't have a really coherent equivalent to .NET (I'm not saying that we should). -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists