It's exciting. In comparison, to develop in the Apple world, you download XCode for free, sign up to the Developer program ($99) and that's it. Compare to Microsoft is somewhat more expensive. MSDN Ultimate is around the $10K mark. The Visual Studio Community stuff is great to see. I'm wondering what the difference will be between community versions and enterprise versions. As a solo developer will I be able to do everything with the community versions? Open source is fantastic step but I am left wondering how Microsoft will make money from that. Services, as someone else mentioned?
The other advantage to making .Net open sourced is that more eyes will view the code, resulting in better code. Microsoft do a great job improving their code but imagine how much better it could be if you multiply the number of people working on it! We all gain from this and is there a downside? Not one I can think of... On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:58 PM, David Kean <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.aspx > . > > > > 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? > > > > > > > > >
