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:Desparate Microsoft pulls a "Sun Microsystems" by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-12 06:21 · Score: 5, Insightful

No kidding. An open sourced .NET should get praise rather than grumpy old complaining. Some spend years complaining and then when a company takes a step in the right direction they deride it. Sure it is a decade overdue, but they did it.