How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha

Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by xfer on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:29PM (#28795433)

This is why microsoft loves open-source. Free code from others that they can point to while trying to sell their licenses.

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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by bayesian_horse on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:57AM (#28796460)

Arguably, for those who want to / have to work in the .NET ecosystem, it is better that .NET is adopting an open source model, even if imperfect.

This actually lessens the vendor lock-in problem and also means less of a risk of Microsoft pulling out of providing security updates for key components.

So far as I can observe, C#, F# and .NET Core as a platform for web development have benefited from the OSS-ification in the form of more dynamic and transparent progress/evolution.

Disclaimer: I'm more of a Python/Django guy.

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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by robmen on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:36AM (#28796667)

This doesn't make sense to me. My company (FireGiant) sells support contracts for the open source project for companies that want guaranteed incident response times/SLAs.

And Microsoft isn't involved. The .NET Foundation holds the copyright.

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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by npteljes on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:38AM (#28796679)

They "love open source" because that's what makes most business sense. FOSS is part of the developer zeitgeist so much that you can't avoid dealing with it. MS and others have bashed them for years, but it only got stronger. So it only makes sense to tone down the denial and start accepting that it won't go away.

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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by hulitu on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:05AM (#28796189)

Also they realized that there is a lot of free stuff that can be used for free.

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