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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by modmans2nd on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:33PM (#23252051)
MS is open sourcing their platforms which is more valuable than their products from a community benefit perspective.
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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by enitihas on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:36PM (#23252093)
EA has open sourced tons of their internal libraries which are "more valuable than their products from a community benefit perspective." Just take a look at their GitHub. What "platform" of theirs has MSFT open sourced? Which of those were an important platform of MSFT. EA is atleast releasing something which made them money as open source.
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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by apetresc on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:15PM (#23253905)
> What "platform" of theirs has MSFT open sourced? Which of those were an important platform of MSFT?

Uhh, .NET?

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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by postalrat on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:59AM (#23254940)
I thought mono was developed by a team outside Microsoft.
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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by thomasz on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:51AM (#23255539)
Microsoft open sourced all of dotnet. Runtime, class library, everything.
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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by severino on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:08AM (#23255942)
All of .net is open source? So you can now run any winforms or wpf app in the operating system of your choice? That's great.
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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by thomasz on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:17AM (#23256001)
Winforms is a thin wrapper around windows APIs, so no, you can’t.
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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by aliswe on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:19AM (#23255682)
Not the debugger it seems :(
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