EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3

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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