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Visual J# .NET Released

Posted by timothy on from the trapped-in-a-dot-net dept.

Goalie_Ca writes: "Visual J# .NET was released at the Tech Ed 2002 Europe Developper conference today. Visual J# .NET is not a tool for developing applications intended to run on a Java virtual machine. Applications and services built with Visual J# .NET will run only in the .NET Framework; they will not run on any Java virtual machine. Download it here; Microsoft J# .Net site."

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  1. Re:Market-speak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, I have read the standards. Or browsed them at least, so I do know what I am talking about. They are here and here if you also want to read them.

    I think you are confusing 'open source software' with 'free software'. Remember, open source just means the source is open for you to see and use, examples being the Microsoft Shared Source license and the BSD license. If it classified as Free Software it has additional restrictions to stop people from modifying and then closing the source.

    The fact that it is Open Source is a huge step forward for Microsoft in working with the open source community. You slate it as being FreeBSD only - but really, they just picked the most popular of the *BSDs. It makes sense to go for BSD, as there are too many other Linux platforms to work on. And it makes sense to go for the most popular (even if 'BSD is dying', hehe :-) )

    The important thing is that there is a *Unix* port of it, available as Open Source. This is a very good move all round.

    And it's not a case of 'taking down' Windows. Look at it this way - they open source it, get lots of free development on it from interested third parties, and then get to sell more of their .net server software based on this free development.

    Pretty neat, and like I said before, beneficial all round. Surely you are not so blinkered that you cannot see that Microsoft may want to benefit it's customers? You don't win in business by screwing your customers over!