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Microsoft open-sources the .NET core

Microsoft open-sources the .NET core

[Development] Posted Nov 12, 2014 17:02 UTC (Wed) by corbet

Microsoft has announced that the .NET core code is now available under an open-source (MIT) license. "As a .NET developer you were able to build & run code on more than just Windows for a while now, including Linux, MacOS, iOs and Android. The challenge is that the Windows implementation has one code base while Mono has a complete separate code base. The Mono community was essentially forced to re-implement .NET because no open source implementation was available." Amusingly, the code has been placed on GitHub; the announcement notes that code located there gets far more contributions than code on Microsoft's own "CodePlex" site.

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