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More recently they wanted to monetize C#, but found it best to make the language itself free and open source while monetizing through complementary products.
by DylanDmitri 5y ago
More recently they wanted to monetize C#, but found it best to make the language itself free and open source while monetizing through complementary products.
- spamizbad 5y agoI'm sure they still make good money from MSDN subscriptions but the value of that is deeply tied in with Microsoft's own platform (Windows, SQL Server, Azure, etc).
- andi999 5y agoWhat are complementary products for c#?
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- nwatson 5y agoAzure, Windows Server, SQL Server, Exchange, MS office, Dynamics, anything else in the enterprise suite where C# is a good integrator.
- nightski 5y agoWhen did they ever want to monetize C#? That is pure FUD. It's been an ecma standard from the start with multiple compiler implementations including Mono since very early 2000s.
- IshKebab 5y agoYeah but Mono wasn't really close to the official implementation in terms of performance or completeness.
- tester756 5y ago>More recently they wanted to monetize C#, what? src?
- jeremycarter 5y agoWhere is the evidence to support this? Utter fabrication.