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Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac

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Re: Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac

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Post by jgrowl »

sergiotapia wrote: post #18
scott00 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr MIT license

Checkmate Stallman.

Not really. I'm a big fan of MIT style licenses, but it also means that Microsoft could at anytime start making proprietary updates.

It could mean we could start adopting it and then at some point down the road they could discontinue the open version and start making closed features/updates.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very pleased that this is the direction Microsoft is taking. I am just still very skeptical.

Re: Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac

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Post by u04f061 »

kin wrote: post #19
u04f061 wrote: post #11

Dear Microsoft, Please stay away from Linux. It is windows which converted me to Linux. Sincerely, A happy Linux User.

Windows and .NET are different things. I'm fairly confident being able to run .NET on unix machines won't affect you very much so you can stay a happy Linux User. Also, times are changing man, for the better. Embrace it.

The only part which scares me is that people will start making Linux apps using dotnet technologies. >Also, times are changing man, for the better. Embrace it Yup. That is why MS had to realize that *nix is eclipsing it in cloud and to grab extra some extra pennies out of our pockets, they are releasing their products on these platform just to fool us that they care. Actually they don't care us at all.

Re: Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac

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Post by chc »

jgrowl wrote: post #21
sergiotapia wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Checkmate Stallman.

Not really. I'm a big fan of MIT style licenses, but it also means that Microsoft could at anytime start making proprietary updates. It could mean we could start adopting it and then at some point down the road they could discontinue the open version and start making closed features/updates. Don't get me wrong, I'm very pleased that this is the direction Microsoft is taking. I am just still very skeptical.

In fairness, as long as they have copyright assignment from contributors, they could just as well do that with a GPL software.

Re: Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac

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Post by eloff »

jgrowl wrote: post #21
sergiotapia wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Checkmate Stallman.

Not really. I'm a big fan of MIT style licenses, but it also means that Microsoft could at anytime start making proprietary updates. It could mean we could start adopting it and then at some point down the road they could discontinue the open version and start making closed features/updates. Don't get me wrong, I'm very pleased that this is the direction Microsoft is taking. I am just still very skeptical.

The GPL doesn't protect against that either. They still own the code, either way, and can make new development closed whenever they want.

Re: Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac

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Post by [deleted] »

jgrowl wrote: post #21
sergiotapia wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Checkmate Stallman.

Not really. I'm a big fan of MIT style licenses, but it also means that Microsoft could at anytime start making proprietary updates. It could mean we could start adopting it and then at some point down the road they could discontinue the open version and start making closed features/updates. Don't get me wrong, I'm very pleased that this is the direction Microsoft is taking. I am just still very skeptical.

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Re: Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac

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Post by nutate »

F# is a real breath of fresh air in comparison to something like Scala. It's direct ML heritage really shows, also just diving in with an IDE (like Xamarin, or I suppose Visual Studio) is super easy.

I see it as the future of pop-functional programming. For example look at the way it handles type inference w/ JSON parsing. Compare that to what you have to do to parse JSON in Scala. It's subtle, but a major usability win.

Re: Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac

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Post by rdtsc »

noir_lord wrote: post #8
aroman wrote: post #6

Am I the only one bothered that they didn't include the space between the "OS" and the "X"? More importantly, this is huge, but as a Linux developer/user I still have no desire to use .NET on my platform. Maybe Mono has scarred my permanently.

Also linux developer/user and I'd crawl over broken glass to have a reliable C# runtime on Linux, it's my absolute favorite language.

I have been using C# on Mono for a back-end and so far so good.

For code I am editing on MonoDevelop or on VS and then compiled and ran on Linux.

Re: Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac

#30

Post by eloff »

u04f061 wrote: post #23
kin wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows and .NET are different things. I'm fairly confident being able to run .NET on unix machines won't affect you very much so you can stay a happy Linux User. Also, times are changing man, for the better. Embrace it.

The only part which scares me is that people will start making Linux apps using dotnet technologies. >Also, times are changing man, for the better. Embrace it Yup. That is why MS had to realize that *nix is eclipsing it in cloud and to grab extra some extra pennies out of our pockets, they are releasing their products on these platform just to fool us that they care. Actually they don't care us at all.

If you expect companies to care about you, you need a reality check.
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