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Microsoft Open Sources .NET Micro Framework
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."
I must have the swine flu. Maybe I'm having a psychotic episode. Did I wind up in a holodeck? Or the Twilight Zone? It must be one of these things because I keep having these senseless hallucinations where MicroSoft acts like a decent company.
Wow, you mean a multinational corporation with a fiduciary duty to return shareholder value thinks there might be some "angle" in this? Slashdot seriously needs a -1 (Durr) mod.
I can't express how excited I am to see how this will be turned against Microsoft.
Not satisfied with killing software competitors by the Embrace, Extend and Extinguish methodology, now they are doing it to licenses. Pretty soon Apache license will be incompatible with everything non Microsoft, inlcuding Apache Web Server. Run, Run away when you still can!
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Maybe it is a promo for the 2012.
Or
then the maya calendar has Its reason to end on 2012....
Hell is Freezing somewhere...
It took some work to locate, but I knew there was skullduggery afoot...
Microsoft has taken things to the next level by releasing the .NET Micro Framework under the Apache 2.0 licence.
There ya go. Microsoft has cleverly made it look like they were following the Apache 2.0 license, when in reality they've got some evil spawn of their own creation that goes under the name "Apache 2.0 licence". That special Microsoft license probably says Ballmer gets to eat your firstborn, or something equally nefarious.
Those dastardly evildoers!
#DeleteChrome
No, it's slightly different crap now.
Yahoo! Is! that! you!?
I didn't sound like Bill Shatner, did I?
Buy my euphoria has died down. Some guys with Think Geek! T-Shirts came by and beat the shit out of me.
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
You're right. It's made up of stock holders that only care about their near-term return on investment; hence, evil.
To do .NET development well, you'll need to get licenses for VS(.NET),
Wrong.
Windows,
Wrong.
SourceSafe,
Wrong.
Windows Server,
Wrong.
Sybase SQL,
Not just wrong, but mystifying! Sybase? Not... MS SQL Express? That would have made sense.
Anyway, congratulations! You're five-for-five. You've succeeded in crafting a perfectly factless post.
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