Microsoft open sources some of .net

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 12:31:13PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> <http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-open-sourcing-of-net-the-back-story-7000028109/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61>
> <http://www.cnet.com/news/microsofts-3-year-journey-to-an-open-source-net/>
> 
> I don't know what to make of the move.  Partly because I don't touch that 
> world.
> 
> Miguel de Icaza was there for the announcement.  He's even closer to 
> becoming a Microsoft employee :-)  Ximian's moral successor Xamarin is 
> involved.
> 
> The open sourcing of the C# and VB compilers might undercut Xamarin's own 
> compiler.
> 
> Isn't .net left out of the new world formerly known as Metro?  Again, an 
> area where I have no knowledge.  Microsoft says that they are not 
> abandoning .net.  Windows developers would probably be livid after they 
> got burned by the intro of .net, killing their old ecosystem.
> 
> So: does this mean anything at all for Linux?  Of course we don't have a 
> really coherent equivalent to .NET (I'm not saying that we should).

Metro and windows phone apps both run on top of .net, so no they are
not going to abandon that.

Silverlight was a subset of .net with a much smaller runtime, although
that has somewhat been abandoned.

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