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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by gigel82 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:19AM (#31763643)
.NET was open sourced in 2016, that's 6 years ago. It looks like you were 1+ years fully within the ecosystem before any part of it was OSS, and now you're demanding new features they write get open sourced as well?

Reminds of that time they introduced WiFi on planes; it was a brand new thing, and they let folks on the flight use it for free - but of course being a new tech it broke down after about an hour. There was this guy on the flight making a big fuss about the WiFi stopping working, like truly upset and vocal about it. Dude, how are you owed something you didn't even know existed an hour ago?

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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by visose on Thursday June 16, 2022 @06:29AM (#31764402)
I agree with this sentiment, but you forgot to credit Louis CK for the anecdote you borrowed.
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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by UmbertoNoEco on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:41AM (#31767356)
He should steal material from less well-known comedians. That's what the pros do.
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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by gigel82 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:41AM (#31767359)
Ah, a connoisseur! :)
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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by croes on Thursday June 16, 2022 @06:03AM (#31764242)
They replace an existing open source feature with a closed source one.

So that's totally different.

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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by gigel82 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:42AM (#31767366)
No they don't, they give you a choice between the existing open source solution and a new closed source one.
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