> _And Microsoft doesn't show any signs of wanting to sue anyone for any of this_ I'd go so far as to say (at least on the ASP.NET side) they're trying to _enc

> _And Microsoft doesn't show any signs of wanting to sue anyone for any of this_ I'd go so far as to say (at least on the ASP.NET side) they're trying to _encourage_ community participation. Wasn't NuGet a community project before it was baked into Visual Studio? I'm pretty sure they're now shipping the JSON.NET library in one or more of the core project templates, rather than write their own.