Open Source Software Seeping Into the .NET Developer World

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 5, 2013 @03:05PM from the slowly-but-surely dept.

dp619 writes "In an interview, Microsoft Regional Director Patrick Hynds says that avoidance of open source components by a large part of the .NET developer population is abating. '...While some may still steer clear of the GPL, there are dozens of FOSS licenses that are compatible with Windows developers and their customers,' he said. Hynds cites NuGet, an open source package management system was originally built by Microsoft and now an Outercurve Foundation project, as an example of FOSS libraries that .NET developer are adopting for their applications. Microsoft itself has embraced open source — to a point. It has partnered with Hortonworks for a Windows port of Hadoop, allowed Linux to run on Windows Azure, and is itself a Hadoop user."

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Re:.NET Developers Have Long Favored Open Source by Arker · 2013-03-05 16:08 · Score: 0, Troll

Again, the question is not how many people can execute it, the question is how many can parse it, and what is the barrier to entry they face? Writing for a popular market may not be idiotic, but writing for a popular *closed* market and falsely claiming to be open source IS idiotic.

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Re:Get in on the action? by thetoadwarrior · 2013-03-05 22:02 · Score: 1, Troll

Google makes money selling advertising. They spend money on open source project some of which are use to make awful emasculating mobile phones.