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

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Desparate Microsoft pulls a "Sun Microsystems" by iggymanz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Too little too late, Billy Bob Gates

    1. Re: Desparate Microsoft pulls a "Sun Microsystems" by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Funny

      They're taking it Mono a Mono.

      With nasty patent clauses, no doubt.

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    2. Re:Desparate Microsoft pulls a "Sun Microsystems" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I go around saying "Microsoft limits filenames to a ridiculous 8.sqrt(3) format."

      Does that make my hatred irrational?

  2. Re:Too little, too late by i+kan+reed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh no, two versions of an open source technology. Thank god Linux still only has that one distribution.

    Really, though, I can see no downsides to this change.

  3. Perfect Linux Application for .NET by trandles · · Score: 5, Funny

    I really hope systemd is rewritten using .NET!

  4. saywhatnow? by ihtoit · · Score: 2, Funny

    bit fuckin' early for April Fools isn't it?

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  5. Re:Microsoft is not less evil,more companies are E by Ravaldy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have long ago concluded that on Slashdot success = evil.