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What is .NET?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the funny-you-should-ask dept.

CyberBry writes "There's a great technical overview of Microsoft .NET over at arstechnica: "In a remarkable feat of journalistic sleight-of-hand, thousands of column inches in many "reputable" on-line publications have talked at length about .NET whilst remaining largely ignorant of its nature, purpose, and implementation. Ask what .NET is, and you'll receive a wide range of answers, few of them accurate, all of them conflicting. Confusion amongst the press is rampant. The more common claims made of .NET are that it's a Java rip-off, or that it's subscription software. The truth is somewhat different.""

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  1. great article! by timdorr · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wow. 2 Slashdottings for us Arsians in such a sort span of time... I hope some of your guys get subscriptions to that site to help us with the bandwidth bill.. =D

    Back on topic, I can attest that this is a great article. Before, all I knew of .NET was something about subscription services and some set of servers... Now it all makes sense...

    Great read!

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  2. Re:I honestly can't figure out by sydb · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    People have been saying it for ages and I ignored it till now but it's true: Slashdot is becoming more and more riddled with idiots.

    Someone posts that and get's modded insightful? The poster clearly hasn't even read the article, never mind actually making an insightful comment about the subject in question, about which prisoner-of-enigma clearly knows nothing.

    I hit the karma limit a while back by posting sensible, informed, sometimes witty comments. And yet here we are, people wanting informed, reasoned, exciting discussion, struggling to be heard against a cacophony of nonsense which gets promoted to the top.

    Hmmm, sounds just like the Top 40.

    Here's the sad fact: populism sucks, and moderation is populism in action. What does this say about democracy? I wouldn't like to think, but hey: George W Bush.

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  3. Re:You honestly can't figure out... by sydb · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I put my karma behind what I say, unlike you.

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  4. Re:You honestly can't figure out... by sydb · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Also, it's decrying, not decreying. Oh, and there's no irony involved, Alanis.

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