I thought it was because Microsoft is licensing[0] most of .Net under MIT and Apache License 2.0 with a broad patent grant that would make what Oracle did to Go

I thought it was because Microsoft is licensing[0] most of .Net under MIT and Apache License 2.0 with a broad patent grant that would make what Oracle did to Google (vis-à-vis Java in Android[1]) impossible. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework#Licensing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework#Licensing [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google....