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Microsoft Releases Source of .NET Base Classes

Posted by Soulskill on from the yes-there-is-a-catch dept.

Disgruntled Fungus writes "A few months ago, we discussed Microsoft's intention to open source the .NET libraries. According to a developer's official blog, the source code is now available. The source to libraries such as System, IO, Windows.Forms, etc. can now be viewed and used for debugging purposes from within Visual Studio. Instructions for doing so have also been provided. The source code has been released with a read-only license and 'does not apply to users developing software for a non-Windows platform that has "the same or substantially the same features or functionality" as the .NET Framework.'"

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  1. fake Open Source, Microsoft style by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It has strings attached, as usual, in order to render it useless in any true Open Source project, but does its job of promoting a non existent support of Open Source from Microsoft.

    IMO, the only reason for that PR is clearly showed in the nice graph at this page

  2. Re:It's in the source! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What's wrong with COBOL? It has exactly the same features as VB.NET.

  3. Re:Yay! by drachenstern · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Obviously by you wanting to repeat the same sort of code f*ups as posted to TDWTF, then I think it is safe that we let you see the code. We just don't want you to contribute. Thanks for playing "That's Not What I Meant To Say"

    As CmdrTaco frequently reminds us, "You should have used preview"

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