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posted by n1 on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the more-desperate-moves dept.

Earlier this year, Microsoft open sourced a big chunk of .NET, publishing its new compiler, Roslyn, and many .NET libraries under the Apache license. Today, the company took that same open sourcing effort a great deal further. Microsoft announced that its full server .NET stack, including the just-in-time compiler and runtime and the core class libraries that all .NET software depends on, will all be open sourced.

The code will be hosted on GitHub and published under a permissive MIT-style license.

With this release, Microsoft wants to make sure that the .NET stack is fully functional and production quality on both Linux and OS X. The company is working with the Mono community to make sure that this platform is "enterprise-ready."

Not sure I'd want a port of .NET but perhaps we'll see some improvements to WINE with this available codebase.

Additionally, Microsoft announced a partnership with Xamarin for Visual Studio 2015 with support for iOS, Android and Windows, allowing to use one tool for all. This will impact Xamarin tools as well, making easier to install them from Visual Studio.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Thursday November 13 2014, @08:31AM

    by q.kontinuum (532) on Thursday November 13 2014, @08:31AM (#115473) Journal

    sed i/\.NET/systemd/

    Still valid. That's live... Good tools can be used for bad purposes... But maybe it makes .NET vulnerable. Maybe it will also caught some bad disease one day, like .NET with systemd-extension ;-)

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