Re:Antitrust inquiry into Apple over Section 3.3.1
by exit on Monday May 03, 2010 @11:13AM
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does microsoft also prohibit 3rd parties from producing compatibility layers on top of .Net?
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Re:Antitrust inquiry into Apple over Section 3.3.1
by nkohari on Monday May 03, 2010 @11:21AM
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No, as far as I know, Microsoft does not contractually obligate developers to use their tools. The .NET CLI is an ECMA standard, and there have been a few alternative languages developed for it (same as the JVM). I'm not aware of anything that would stop you from writing an XNA game using Boo, for example.