Is Microsoft 'Reaping the Rewards' From Open-Sourcing Its .NET Core? (infoworld.com)

An anonymous reader quote InfoWorld: Two years ago Microsoft did the unthinkable: It declared it would open-source its .NET server-side cloud stack with the introduction of .NET Core... Thus far, the move has paid off. Microsoft has positioned .NET Core as a means for taking .NET beyond Windows. The cross-platform version extends .NET's reach to MacOS and Linux...

Developers are buying in, says Scott Hunter, Microsoft partner director program manager for .NET. "Forty percent of our .NET Core customers are brand-new developers to the platform, which is what we want with .NET Core," Hunter says. "We want to bring new people in." Thanks in considerable part to .NET Core, .NET has seen a 61% uptick in the number of developers engaged with the platform in the past year.
The article includes an interesting quote from Microsoft-watching analyst Rob Sanfilippo. "It could be argued that the technology generates indirect revenue by incenting the use of Azure services or Microsoft developer tools."

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[Anonymous Coward]

They see paid upticks which represent their investment into colleges and universities. The problem is that this type of 'bought win' doesn't often translate out well into the real world. If the only way you can get someone to use your language is to make them naive about others by overwhelming with your own data on unicorn farts and fairy tails that it is relevant than your struggling. People who get this crap forced down their throats (I was one of them) are not looking to be coddled by a name brand we are looking to accomplish a business task and thus far Microsoft with its obtuse code and terrible interfaces for design as well as piss poor architecture and inability to cross platform operate. When it comes to accomplishing a task this needs to be similar to picking up a spoon to shovel soup into your mouth, the spoon does not needs a compas and blinking lights it just needs to get the job done in a practical manner.

The reality is that javascript is the universal language at the moment of 'get stuff done' and realistically it should be the most prominantly featured langauge in education institutes for this reason. Since it has no direct corporate control and does not require payment to operate this makes it viable and practical unlike requiring a book as thick as war and peace but with less effect and less possible effect bloated from poor architecture and design decisions.

Re:what's so "unthinkable"?

[Princeofcups]

Two years ago Microsoft did the unthinkable:

I don't see what's so "unthinkable" about it; Microsoft has been pretty honest and well-behaved when it comes to .NET since the start: they created open standards, made legal commitments not to assert any patents, and have supported Mono. That is... unlike that other company and its platform.

Oh man, that's worthy of a spit take. This is Microsoft we're talking about, not a reformed heroin addict. Nothing has changed. This is classic embrace, extend, extinguish.