Microsoft open-sources .NET under MIT License, officially supports it on Linux

[Qyöt27]

[Phoronix] Microsoft To Open-Source .NET, Bring It Officially To Linux

https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet


I saw this a couple days ago, figured it would be an interesting discussion here .

So I'm assuming this means that Mono is now pretty much useless, except maybe as an alternative interpreter (such as the difference between all those alternative Python dists, just more low-level).

 

[Peacemonger]

Wow, this is surprising news. Microsoft doesn't usually open-source anything.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

Wow, this is surprising news. Microsoft doesn't usually open-source anything.

The old guard have gone, expect more of this.