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Will there be an open source Linux build? Edit: Really? Downmods for a legitimate question?

• scrollaway 12y ago
  I think you got downvoted for asking a foolish question. If there were linux builds in the plans, they would have announced it. If open sourcing the whole thing was planned... well, you get the idea.
  • jsprogrammer 12y ago
    I don't see what is foolish about the question (and was taught [and believe] that there are no foolish questions). MS has opened up their flagship development platform (.NET) and even has it building on Linux. MS will also rent you Linux virtual machines. The post also talks about interoperability and running across many kinds of devices, including "try out RemoteIE which will stream our latest browser from the Azure cloud to Windows, iOS or Android devices."
    • scrollaway 12y ago
      What's foolish is to think that such a thing wouldn't have been announced outside of the comments section of some website.
      • jsprogrammer 12y ago
        Sorry, I don't have time to go through Microsoft's entire PR archive to verify. Why would anyone ask Microsoft (or an employee) a question then?
    • ygra 12y ago
      First of all, the team who open-sourced .NET is a different one from that that is building IE. DevDiv has been very open-source-friendly for a few years by now. Then there is the fact that .NET is far less tied to the platform than IE is. .NET is nothing more than a VM, runtime and GC. That's fairly easy to get cross-platform, compared to a GUI application that makes use of platform libraries for hw-accelerated drawing and text rendering.
  • couchand 12y ago
    The first rule of Linux builds is...