Update on MSNet

[Susan Cragin]

I'm sure you know this, but thought I would pass this along.

MSNet framework is open-source.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-is-open-source.as...

An article I read said that MS has committed to developing linux and mac versions, but I don't see where MS has committed money to it.

Keep up the good work!
Susan

[David Quintana (gigaherz)]

As I understand it, they released the Reference Source as MIT, and they are
progressively working on the ".NET Core 5" project, which is based on code
from their older internal implementation together with parts of the
Reference Source, in order to make the opensource one.

I would seem to me that they may be partially "redacting" the code by using
the reference implementations for certain methods, but that's just the
paranoia speaking.

On 14 November 2014 15:36, Susan Cragin  wrote:
> I'm sure you know this, but thought I would pass this along.
>
> MSNet framework is open-source.
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-is-open-source.as...
>
> An article I read said that MS has committed to developing linux and mac
> versions, but I don't see where MS has committed money to it.
>
> Keep up the good work!
> Susan

[Vincent Povirk]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:52 AM, David Quintana (gigaherz)
 wrote:
> As I understand it, they released the Reference Source as MIT

I recall seeing a blog post saying they were doing that, but the site
that hosts the Reference Source still shows an unusable license. Have
they done anything with this that would be binding?

We're mostly behind in higher-level class libraries like winforms,
WPF, and the vb.net runtime, which afaik are still not available under
a free software license.