Microsoft To Open Source .NET and Take It Cross-Platform
525
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today announced plans to open source .NET, the company's software framework that primarily runs on Windows, and release it on GitHub. Furthermore, Microsoft also unveiled plans to take .NET cross-platform by targeting both Mac OS X and Linux. In the next release, Microsoft plans to open source the entire .NET server stack, from ASP.NET 5 down to the Common Language Runtime and Base Class Libraries. The company will let developers build .NET cloud applications on multiple platforms; it is promising future support of the .NET Core server runtime and framework for Mac and Linux. Microsoft is also making Visual Studio free for small teams.
Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)
Re: Desparate Microsoft pulls a "Sun Microsystems" (Score:5, Funny)
They're taking it Mono a Mono.
With nasty patent clauses, no doubt.
Re:Too little, too late (Score:5, Funny)
Oh no, two versions of an open source technology. Thank god Linux still only has that one distribution.
Really, though, I can see no downsides to this change.
Perfect Linux Application for .NET (Score:5, Funny)
I really hope systemd is rewritten using .NET!
saywhatnow? (Score:3, Funny)
bit fuckin' early for April Fools isn't it?
Re:Desparate Microsoft pulls a "Sun Microsystems" (Score:3, Funny)
I go around saying "Microsoft limits filenames to a ridiculous 8.sqrt(3) format."
Does that make my hatred irrational?
Re:Microsoft is not less evil,more companies are E (Score:3, Funny)
I have long ago concluded that on Slashdot success = evil.