Excellent job, Microsoft.
Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
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#13http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/11/12/opening...
True to form, the links to github are broken.
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#14Does this mean that Mono will no longer be necessary for cross-platform C# use?
Only if it's easy enough to port, and I doubt it would be. Although Mono will definitely gain from the original source code.
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#15Faith in C# restored. Amazing.
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#16I welcome it. And still think it is 10 years too late. 2.0 was a blast and provided higher quality of life and speed of contemporary JAVA. If they had made it multiplatform back then the world would have been different.
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#17No 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
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#18Does this mean that Mono will no longer be necessary for cross-platform C# use?
Only if it's easy enough to port, and I doubt it would be. Although Mono will definitely gain from the original source code.
It does say that they are "expanding .NET to run on the Linux and Mac OS platforms".
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#19This makes a lot of sense for Microsoft. It doesn't in any way cheapen or lessen the .NET business at all, if anything more things will be built on .NET which will lead to higher sales of things like Azure, which for a lot of non .NET devs has almost 0 mindshare.
I've never heard a Ruby or PHP developer list Azure as a potential deploy target. That is a real problem for Microsoft, even though Azure can do a lot of the same things AWS or Google's cloud does.
Smart move Microsoft.
Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
#20Does this mean that Mono will no longer be necessary for cross-platform C# use?
Open-sourcing .NET doesn't magically make it work on other platforms (a not-insignificant chunk is Win32-specific, for example). But it certainly makes the Mono team's job easier.