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Re:Microsoft Is Now 'Open by Default', Says Xamarin Founder ... by zgramana on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:39AM (#12901636)
Miguel is clearly referring to Microsoft developer tools, since he's in the developer tools org.
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Re:Microsoft Is Now 'Open by Default', Says Xamarin Founder ... by maxxxxx on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @12:32PM (#12902186)
Then they should open source Visual Studio and TFS and make them free. Dealing with those licenses is a major PITA.
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Re:Microsoft Is Now 'Open by Default', Says Xamarin Founder ... by runjake on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @01:01PM (#12902445)
Visual Studio basically is free [1].

I imagine we'll see Visual Studio open sourced sooner rather than later, going off the hint-dropping from MSFT engineers. I assume they have some code cleanup, and intellectual property issues to deal with first.

1. https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/community/

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Re:Microsoft Is Now 'Open by Default', Says Xamarin Founder ... by maxxxxx on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @02:39PM (#12903286)
It's not free for companies from a certain size on. I am not even talking about the money but just the effort of tracking licenses.
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