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C# and .NET were designed to sell Microsoft Windows Servers, C# = Microsoft and any side project like Mono can be shut down any time. Microsoft did not become w
by camus 14y ago
C# and .NET were designed to sell Microsoft Windows Servers, C# = Microsoft and any side project like Mono can be shut down any time. Microsoft did not become what it is by embracing open and free technologies unless it was to "extend and extinguish them", if you dont pay for a product one way or another there is no reason for Microsoft to support that product. C# is a good language but definetly not the future.
- brass9 14y ago>any side project like Mono can be shut down any time. RMS had been trying to spread that particular flavor of FUD for over a decade - albeit C#'s popularity has extended beyond Linux into mobile space. I am no friend of Microsoft, and not a huge fan of Mono - but I think together they provide a viable alternative to the cross-platform JVM.
- numo16 14y agoMicrosoft has been making some decent moves into open and free as of late. The biggest thing lately, that I can think of, was their open sourcing of the entire asp.net stack: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/ http://aspnet.codeplex.com/ http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/ http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/