Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network

Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by oropolo on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:23PM (#18186359)

> Is there already a complete free C#-Compiler available for posix systems, which can be recompiled without non-free parts from microsoft

Is the Apache 2 licensed Roslyn compiler not free enough for you? https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by jpic on Thursday October 11, 2018 @08:51AM (#18193047)

I feel so much compassion for the developers of Roslyn, that were dictated to "re-implement the bugs from the proprietary version in the open source version".

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by breakingcups on Friday October 12, 2018 @03:13AM (#18199836)

Can you provide a source for that? I'm interested in learning what kind of bugs would need to be re-implemented.

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by scw on Friday October 12, 2018 @06:40PM (#18205230)

Check out: https://medium.com/microsoft-open-source-stories/how-microso...

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by deknos on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:51PM (#18186645)

further on, can be the z3 theorem prover built only with free software?

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by SSLy on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:03PM (#18187901)

Of course.

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by AsyncAwait on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:25PM (#18188056)

There's still no OSS debugger.

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by kevingadd on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:59PM (#18188338)

mono has had debugging tools (including a graphical debugger in monodevelop) for like... a decade? more?

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by AsyncAwait on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:26PM (#18189063)

I meant from MS. Also see https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2017/02/15/rider-eap-17-nu...

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by gameswithgo on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:51PM (#18189234)

MS owns xamarin now, so I think also mono?

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by AsyncAwait on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @06:18PM (#18189442)

Mono is not .NET Core.

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by gameswithgo on Thursday October 11, 2018 @10:11AM (#18193660)

I know it isn't.

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by rodrigokumpera on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:51PM (#18189228)

Mono is MS.

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by AsyncAwait on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @06:18PM (#18189440)

I am talking about the .NET Core debugger, see https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2017/02/15/rider-eap-17-nu...

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by deknos on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:45PM (#18186582)

cool, there really seem to be steps.

further: Can i reimplement server/client functions of the caldav stack and have my own push notifications for mail?

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