Microsoft is open sourcing .NET framework

Microsoft has just announced they open sourced .NET,” including ASP.NET, the .NET compiler, the .NET Core Runtime, Framework and Libraries, enabling developers to build with .NET across Windows, Mac or Linux.” They’re including a patent promise. Miguel de Icaza reports that the Mono project will be “replacing chunks of Mono code that was either incomplete, buggy, or not as fully featured as it should be with Microsoft’s code,” and he also notes that “Microsoft has stated that they do not currently plan on taking patches back or engaging into a full open source community style development of this code base, as the requirements for backwards compatibility on Windows are very high.” Nevertheless, this is a very interesting development that demonstrates that Microsoft is serious about remaining relevant.

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