Google Joins Microsoft's .NET Foundation (venturebeat.com)

Emil Protalinski, writing for VentureBeat:As part of its slew of announcements at its Connect(); 2016 developer event in New York City today, Microsoft unveiled that Google is joining the .NET Foundation. Specifically, Google is becoming a member of the Technical Steering Group, which Microsoft says "reinforces the vibrancy of the .NET developer community" and also underlines "Google's commitment to fostering an open platform that supports businesses and developers who have standardized on .NET." [...] So what does Google joining actually mean? In short, Google will help steer the future of .NET in a way that is "similar to an open standard," Xamarin cofounder and Microsoft's current vice president of mobile developer tools, Nat Friedman, told VentureBeat. Google's decision is being driven by its enterprise business (Google Cloud) and the desire to keep up with businesses adopting public and hybrid clouds. The company sees the move as part of its commitment to open-source technology, which benefits all enterprises, and cross-platform development that gives developers and IT professionals access to the best tools.

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Lots of love today...

[rwven]

Microsoft joins the Linux foundation, Google joins the .NET foundation. What's next? Hillary joins the Trump Foundation?

Re:Lots of love today...

[Marsoupial]

"Those people who have a different viewpoint than me are mentally retarded, and their leader is physically unattractive to boot, which further lends credence to my viewpoint."

My prediction for the next story on Slashdot:

[lxs]

Apple joins the Open Source Hardware Association.

Re:Black holes of pure evil merge

[Yvan256]

If they do, then our only hope is that Adobe also joins them and brings them down with code bloat and security holes.

Google doing an embrace and extend on Microsoft?

[JustNiz]

Could this really be Google pulling an "embrace, extend, extinguish" maneuver on Microsoft? That would be awesome because payback is long overdue.

What with this, and the recent announcement that Microsoft have joined the Linux foundation as a Platinum member, I'm wondering what hideous love-child we will see emerge.

I'm desperately hoping that Google will at least have the sense to keep Microsoft completely away from the Android kernel and system.

Re:Google doing an embrace and extend on Microsoft

[squiggleslash]

I'm more hoping they intend to give the finger to Oracle by making C# a first class citizen on Android, and deprecating Java.

C# is a better language anyway, and Google's adoption of Java has kept a language on life support that... well, it's not a terrible language, but it has a Donald Trump of an owner if you know what I mean. Better to move on to something both technically superior and politically undamaged.

Re:Black holes of pure evil merge

[hairyfeet]

MSFT quit trying to poorly ape Apple when they got rid of the sweaty monkey and instead are trying to poorly ape Google, complete with all their spying, under Nutella?

Ever since Nutella took over MSFT has been opening up their software and tools because now you are the product just as you are with Google. This means if Google or Torvalds or anybody else wants to use .NET go right ahead, no nasty contracts anymore because their money isn't coming from software but from your data instead. Whether you consider this an improvement or not is up to you but with the majority of Americans happy to hand their data and every detail of their personal lives to companies like FB? It appears like it or not that is the future of software.