MS Releases .NET Source, Sort Of
cam_macleod writes "A friend at Microsoft (he's a nice guy, really!) pointed me to their release of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) source, which builds successfully on Windows, FreeBSD, and MacOS X 10.2 -- he says Linux too, but their website strangely doesn't mention it!"
The "you may not use this for commercial purposes" thing prevents me from running it on a bunch of (Linux) servers at work. I guess I'll stick with python for my portable sysadmin-ish apps.