This is interesting but is there any commitment to support it long term? I remember when Silverlight was supposed to be the savior that brought .NET to Mac and Linux, but that didn't last more than 5 years. Would be nice for MS to say they guarantee support for 10, 15, etc. years.
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#32how long until i can `brew install dotnet`?
I really want to run it on a Raspberry Pi
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#33They mercifully waited until Java caught up a bit with version 8.
Seriously, they could have fair chance, C# was so much better, but today it's still quite better but java is proven and has more libs.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
IANAL, but that would essentially require contributors to sign a waiver correct? That seems like a fairly large barrier compared to just being able to take contributors code and incorporate it into a closed project, no?
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#35This is interesting but is there any commitment to support it long term? I remember when Silverlight was supposed to be the savior that brought .NET to Mac and Linux, but that didn't last more than 5 years. Would be nice for MS to say they guarantee support for 10, 15, etc. years.
I'm playing devil's advocate: But Silverlight was too little too late. It arrived right as Flash was effectively dying. I don't blame them for killing it, it was dead on arrival.
I can explain the entire problem with Silverlight using two dates:
- iPhone initial release: 29th of June 2007
- Silverlight initial release: 5th of September 2007
Now, we can argue if iOS killed Flash, but I think between iOS's lack of support and all of the security issues associated with Flash, it was set up to lose popular support (and then HTML5/HTML5 DRM filled in the gap, even if it took years ultimately).
Silverlight was a Flash competitor in a world that decided it didn't need Flash.
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#36This is interesting but is there any commitment to support it long term? I remember when Silverlight was supposed to be the savior that brought .NET to Mac and Linux, but that didn't last more than 5 years. Would be nice for MS to say they guarantee support for 10, 15, etc. years.
Silverlight is still supported by Microsoft - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?c2=12905
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#37This is interesting but is there any commitment to support it long term? I remember when Silverlight was supposed to be the savior that brought .NET to Mac and Linux, but that didn't last more than 5 years. Would be nice for MS to say they guarantee support for 10, 15, etc. years.
One thing that's nice is that it's now open source, so as long as it remains open source, it will likely remain cross platform. Contributers that are on non-windows platforms will likely notice when something breaks on their platform, and get it fixed.
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#38Where are the actual download links to play with it?
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#40So is this open-source enough to get into Debian (free) and hence Ubuntu?