Microsoft releases F# under Apache 2.0 license

Post by gtani » Sat, Nov 06, 2010, 5:26 AM UTC

cabalamat wrote: post #91

MichaelGG wrote: post #48

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Both sets of people can be present in the same company. There have been postings in the F# forums of devs wanting to use F# because they know it's good, but being very clear that corporate policy is going to restrict them unless certain conditions are met. Whether IP concerns from open source contribs is one of these, I dunno. Nitpick: F# is really a multi-paradigm language. It truly does provide OO, functional, scri…

> There have been postings in the F# forums of devs wanting to use F# because they know it's good, but being very clear that corporate policy is going to restrict them unless certain conditions are met. Maybe the F# people should rename it "C# Functional", then the devs can write code in it and if the managers say anything, just tell them it's part of C#, and they'll be none the wiser.

Post by konad » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 8:20 PM UTC

mfukar wrote: post #67

konad wrote: post #51

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Or using the dumping of stuff they don't care about to gain positive press from people who will never use them.

You're not implying that nobody uses F# or IronPython, right? That aside, I'm not in a position to know their motivation behind it, I can only say it's a good move for the FOSS community.