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Microsoft Open Sources .NET Micro Framework

Posted by timothy on from the what's-your-angle-college-boy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Back in July, Microsoft announced it was making .NET available under its Community Promise, which in theory allowed free software developers to use the technology without fear of patent lawsuits. Not surprisingly, many free software geeks were unconvinced by the promise (after all, what's a promise compared to an actual open licence?), but now Microsoft has taken things to the next level by releasing the .NET Micro Framework under the Apache 2.0 licence. Yes, you read that correctly: a sizeable chunk of .NET is about to go open source."

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  1. Re:My first question would be... by V!NCENT · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Microsoft could make key applications like Windows Live Messenger (best messenger ever. Don't even dare to argue with me on that one because you WILL lose this one) and Office available on Linux and prepare every OS out there for being able to run their apps so that they can still make huge amount of profit outside of the Windows OS realm. Just to name one thing...

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  2. Re:Yeah, sure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nobody is using it -ANYMORE- because they gutted Visual Studio up through Standard Edition, effectively removing the ability to write WinMo apps using their IDE. WinMo was a really popular platform, right up until the iPhone showed up and MS fucked their developers. 1, 2 combo... knocked themselves out.

  3. Re:My first question would be... by sbeckstead · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Command lines are for neanderthals, but there are command line .NET applications. What rock do you live under?

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  4. Re:My first question would be... by onefriedrice · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    (best messenger ever. Don't even dare to argue with me on that one because you WILL lose this one)

    I didn't realize anybody would waste any amount of brain processing time or storage to form and retain an opinion regarding instant messenger clients... I'm all the more surprised to see how strong you've managed to make yours.

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  5. Re:My first question would be... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Microsoft could make key applications like Windows Live Messenger (best messenger ever. Don't even dare to argue with me on that one because you WILL lose this one) and Office available on Linux and prepare every OS out there for being able to run their apps so that they can still make huge amount of profit outside of the Windows OS realm. Just to name one thing...

    I've seen you vomit poorly-worded arguments and ludicrous hyperbole out for quite some time now. I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt - maybe english is your second (or third) language, maybe you're extremely young, maybe you're a maven and articulating isn't your strong suit. But now it's clear, you're just an idiot. WLM is a terrible messenger by any metric (no CLI, Windows only, ad-ware, bloated, forced upgrade, only one network, bloated, ugly, unstable, etc). And that's just your first sentence (which is partly nested in parenthesis, for some odd reason) - you also go on to suggest that it's advantageous for Microsoft to port to competitor platforms when Windows' greatest strength is it's exclusive software library.

    Please stop posting here V!NCENT, you are a complete idiot.