Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

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Post by simonmales » Wed, Nov 12, 2014, 3:48 PM UTC

yulaow wrote: post #17

simonmales wrote: post #10

No mention of which license they are using?

I can't find anything but if I remember well almost all other open source project by microsoft are under apache2

Here they mention MIT License. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/11/12/opening...

Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

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Post by sauere » Wed, Nov 12, 2014, 3:48 PM UTC

Link is dead for me.

Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

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Post by skykooler » Wed, Nov 12, 2014, 3:49 PM UTC

What does this mean for ReactOS?

Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

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Post by iratedev » Wed, Nov 12, 2014, 3:49 PM UTC

_random_ wrote: post #2

2015 is going to be a year of Microsoft.

Get in line. We're still waiting on (year+1) being the year of the Linux Desktop.

Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

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Post by mindstab » Wed, Nov 12, 2014, 3:49 PM UTC

archagon wrote: post #7

Does this mean that Mono will no longer be necessary for cross-platform C# use?

No I think they are providing open source libraries of the server stack which is written in c#. Still needs mono to compile to linux/mac but now mono won't have to (re?)implement those, they can all share the same MS c# code

Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

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Post by jtgeibel » Wed, Nov 12, 2014, 3:49 PM UTC

simonmales wrote: post #10

No mention of which license they are using?

I think that it is an MIT license, if I've found the correct project on http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/netcore5

Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

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Post by px1999 » Wed, Nov 12, 2014, 3:49 PM UTC

archagon wrote: post #7

Does this mean that Mono will no longer be necessary for cross-platform C# use?

They've announced a .NET core CLR for windows, mac and linux - supported by Microsoft - so sounds like there'll be options (either use Microsoft or use Mono)...

(source: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETasOpenSour... )

Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 12, 2014, 3:49 PM UTC

simonmales wrote: post #10

No mention of which license they are using?

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Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

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Post by dkopi » Wed, Nov 12, 2014, 3:49 PM UTC

Together with the Visual Studio Community announcement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595855, this is great news.

I've always missed the power of visual studio when programming for open source platforms. This can change things a lot.

Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

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Post by taude » Wed, Nov 12, 2014, 3:49 PM UTC

archagon wrote: post #7

Does this mean that Mono will no longer be necessary for cross-platform C# use?

In reading the article, it sounds like they're going to work with the Mono team to bring it everywhere.