Microsoft To Open Source .NET and Take It Cross-Platform

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @04:04AM from the april-fools-headlines-from-10-years-ago dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today announced plans to open source .NET, the company's software framework that primarily runs on Windows, and release it on GitHub. Furthermore, Microsoft also unveiled plans to take .NET cross-platform by targeting both Mac OS X and Linux. In the next release, Microsoft plans to open source the entire .NET server stack, from ASP.NET 5 down to the Common Language Runtime and Base Class Libraries. The company will let developers build .NET cloud applications on multiple platforms; it is promising future support of the .NET Core server runtime and framework for Mac and Linux. Microsoft is also making Visual Studio free for small teams.

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Re:Microsoft is not less evil,more companies are E by davydagger · 2014-11-12 10:14 · Score: -1, Flamebait

what the fuck are you talking about?

mabey next your going to say we "hate freedom" or any other of those buzzwords people like you have when people don't hold the exact same values as you.