Rotor: Shared Source CLI

Oink.NET writes "The O'Reilly Network reports on an unannounced BOF session at BSDCon 2002 regarding Rotor, a shared souce implementation of Microsoft's Common Language Infrastructure that currently runs on Windows and FreeBSD. It relies on a Platform Adaptation Layer, similar to Apache's Portable Runtime, that simplifies porting to other OS's. As to the licensing terms, the Rotor FAQ says "Microsoft intends to provide very liberal non-commercial licensing terms and is interested in gathering community input on the design of the license." Wonder if that includes Slashdot community input..."

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paranoia anyone?

[bob@dB.org]

and people say i'm paranoid...

Be very very careful. (Score:5, Insightful)
...If there's any similarity between Mono or DotGNU and the MS offering, MS can try to say that their code has been stolen ....

ah, the old cut-off-the-oxygen (Score:4, Insightful)
...hobbyists something they can dink around with and they won't be worried about 'software freedom'; they want neat toys, not free software...

and my personal favorite:

If you code FS, don't _ever_ look at the source (Score:4, Interesting)
...From now on, FS developers will have to make sure that anyone on their project has _not_ agreed to the MS shared source license...

let the flamefest and downmodding begin!