So at the beginning of the year you said you were going to address the MS-R poison pill:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/370kxuxd9b6yjjm/microsoft%20and%20mono.png?dl=0 Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that this would be the outcome; as a hard-core deep Unix geek who just happened to fall in love with the language of C# and as a result has suffered the usual technology identity crisis that comes with that decision. Let me say holy fucking shit. Thankyou. Microsoft licensing (MIT) is now more permissive than Mono! (LGPL) Your teams work + the work being done by David Fowl on vNext is simply jaw dropping. A testament and living proof of this is that you are the highest voted link of all time on http://reddit.com/r/programming and was on the front page of News!YC for multiple days. I really look forward to the upcoming years and seeing what Xamarin pull off in the future now that they retire their clean-room efforts and double down and focus that extra energy on making a kick ass mobility solution. Thankyou, Geoff From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Friday, 14 November 2014 5:59 PM To: ozDotNet ([email protected]) Subject: .NET Core is now open source This is something that my immediate team has been pushing for a little while internally and finally announced yesterday: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-is-open-source.as px. This is going to be pretty massive for Microsoft and the community. It will be the biggest code base that we've open sourced and is one of the biggest changes I've seen in the ~13 years I've been using .NET (and now working on .NET). Thoughts?
