I caught this the other day about Microsoft's .NET Foundation to make .NET
and C# more open by releasing many components under the Apache license.
Here's from their home page at http://www.dotnetfoundation.org:
"Announced at the Build 2014 conference, the .NET Foundation was created as
an independent forum to foster open development and collaboration around the
growing collection of open source technologies for .NET. It will strengthen
the future of the .NET ecosystem, providing a forum that promotes openness,
rapid innovation and community participation by commercial and community
developers.
The .NET Foundation includes community leaders such as Miguel de Icaza
(Xamarin), Laurent Bugnion (IdentityMine), Niels Hartvig (Umbraco), Nigel
Sampson (Compiled Experience), Anthony van der Hoorn (Glimpse) and Paul
Betts. In the upcoming months, the .NET Foundation will be inviting many
companies and community leaders to join the foundation, including its Board
of Directors and will then finalize its operational details, including
governance models for its open source initiatives, membership structure and
industry and community engagement."
There's also a story at
http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/03/microsoft-launches-net-foundation-to-foster-the-net-open-source-ecosystem/
detailing it. Your thoughts/suggestions? I know some people like C# as a
language, but it was pretty locked down to Microsoft platforms.
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