Microsoft Puts C# and the CLI Under "Community Promise"

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 7, 2009 @12:06AM from the if-it's-a-trap-please-clarify dept.

FishWithAHammer writes "Peter Galli of Microsoft posted a blog entry on Port25 today, regarding the explicit placement of C# and the Common Language Infrastructure (the ECMA standard that underpins .NET) under their Community Promise: 'It is important to note that, under the Community Promise, anyone can freely implement these specifications with their technology, code, and solutions. You do not need to sign a license agreement, or otherwise communicate to Microsoft how you will implement the specifications. ... Under the Community Promise, Microsoft provides assurance that it will not assert its Necessary Claims against anyone who makes, uses, sells, offers for sale, imports, or distributes any Covered Implementation under any type of development or distribution model, including open-source licensing models such as the LGPL or GPL.'" Adds reader anshulajain: "Understandably, Miguel De Icaza is jumping with joy."

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This shows by Hal_Porter · 2009-07-07 00:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Microsoft love us and want us to be happy :-)

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The stench of microsoft by Pausanias · 2009-07-07 03:03 · Score: 3, Funny

It still has what one slashdot poster called 'the stench of microsoft' on it. Even if microsoft GPLs the whole stack, there will always be that feeling of disgust in those of us who are old school.