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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. I think I'm ill by cptnapalm · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:I think I'm ill by CannonballHead · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think you might have Mono.

  2. OMG it is Meta EEE! by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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    sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
  3. Re:My first question would be... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, it's slightly different crap now.