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I'm glad to see Microsoft embracing Open-Source, C# is such a wonderful language and easy language to use. In light of all the trouble Oracle has been giving Google, I would love to see them embrace it and provide a true alternative to Java on Android.
What I don't understand is why they had to purge the commit history. Did they not use Git internally? Do the commits contain sensitive information? Does it make it easier to clone the repo?
When the team I'm on open sourced an upgrade framework[1] of ours we did the same. There's hundreds of commits over the course of years where the only intended audience was internal, some of those may contain information that wouldn't be appropriate for external consumption (e.g. a reference to non-public information) and others (well most of them really) contain information that would be useless externally (e.g. links to builds or reviews that are accessible only internally, bug numbers, etc).
Honestly, I am a little tired of all the articles (edit: I meant posts) claiming MS is suddenly in the Open Source camp. To truly support Open Source, they should show a willingness to work against Software Patents. The essence of Open Source is the freedom for anyone with a computer to turn their imagination into code. MS remains one of the biggest obstacles in that path. Instead here is what they do: 1) Directly at…
I honestly disagree with your stance against patents, disregarding dull patents and the issues they bring like patent trolls, I really believe that the industry needs patents to prevent unfair competition. The issue is the length of patents, the Software industry doesn't need 20 year-long patents, it's too much time, at most a patent should be valid for 5 years... And well, we also need mechanisms to punish people wh…
I'm guessing you mean overly broad or generic patents, i.e., not sharp and specific. I'm thinking something like a patent for adding an item to a virtual shopping cart. Am I inferring correctly?
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No, Xamarin Studio is not getting open sourced. For more details, you can listen to this podcast from founders of Xamarin - http://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1276
Is it possible to use it without it?
Microsoft has not open sourced Visual studio (VS) so similarly they will not open source Xamarin. You can also use .net framework without using VS. Just use command line tools
Quick question for .NET developers: is there a solution for totally command line driven workflows yet? I really don't want to mess around with .SLN files and IDEs like Visual Studio and MonoDevelop. I'm sure VS is fine for people who like it, but I really want something like `cargo build` or `go build`.
`mono` to run it, rough equivalent of java.
We code for the Unity game engine, but use command line mono tools for testing and feature development.
Quick question for .NET developers: is there a solution for totally command line driven workflows yet? I really don't want to mess around with .SLN files and IDEs like Visual Studio and MonoDevelop. I'm sure VS is fine for people who like it, but I really want something like `cargo build` or `go build`.
'dotnet build' to build it.
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A project under MIT license and accepting PR is good enough for me and is an open source project by definition. No one is taking away your right to hate Microsoft, but picking OSS as bull-work of your argument is not there any more. edit: bull-work(tm)
> A project under MIT license and accepting PR is good enough for me He is not pretending to be an arbiter but speaking generally to what many people, including myself, believe. And in any case, you attempted to refute what you reduced down to his own subjective opinion, with your own subjective opinion. Working against software patents is part of the larger essence of OSS, and it was just a specific example of it. I…
Second thought: Every time I looked into Xamarin (and I do this every 6 months) there was a lack of killer apps created with Xamarin on both iOS and Android, users' experiences with Xamarin were either rare or negative and in total the community felt non-existent
Third thought: Ok got it, they open source to get PR, build a community; I hope that helps and it's not their last resort
So, is Xamarin really a viable solution?
I'm glad to see Microsoft embracing Open-Source, C# is such a wonderful language and easy language to use. In light of all the trouble Oracle has been giving Google, I would love to see them embrace it and provide a true alternative to Java on Android.
Meanwhile, Google has switched away from their Apache Harmony derivative to the officially anointed sources, so there's not much incentive to make the move away from Java entirely, anyway.