Microsoft last week released a preview of the next version of its .Net Core runtime distribution, fulfilling last fall’s pledge to open source .Net and take it cross-platform for Mac and Linux. “Windows 10 is and will be a standard .Net platform, and improving the interoperability of .Net builds bridges from those platforms to Windows 10, effectively augmenting the developer community available to Microsoft and exposing the portfolio of apps they create to Microsoft platforms,” said Black Duck Software’s Bill Weinberg.
Until MS commit all of their software patents to the Open Patent Initiative and cease all patent-related aggression against FOSS projects, MS is absolutely no friend of FOSS, no matter what they open source. For the record, they only open sourced .Net because their "loyal" developers were leaving in droves for FOSS platforms. At a recent .Net dev conference in NZ, I am told that 80% of the talks were about FOSS Javascript platforms, not .Net.
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FOSSers Puzzle Over Significance of Open Source .Net Core
Posted by: Richard Adhikari May 4, 2015 02:01 PMMicrosoft last week released a preview of the next version of its .Net Core runtime distribution, fulfilling last fall’s pledge to open source .Net and take it cross-platform for Mac and Linux. “Windows 10 is and will be a standard .Net platform, and improving the interoperability of .Net builds bridges from those platforms to Windows 10, effectively augmenting the developer community available to Microsoft and exposing the portfolio of apps they create to Microsoft platforms,” said Black Duck Software’s Bill Weinberg.