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Re:In .NET, open source does not beget open source by recoiledsnake on Monday January 09, 2012 @01:50PM (#3443723)
>It actually went to great lengths to demonstrate how hard it is to do cross-platform development with .NET.

Being cross-platform has nothing to do with being open source. They are totally orthogonal. The article conflates both of them.

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Re:In .NET, open source does not beget open source by Herring on Monday January 09, 2012 @03:21PM (#3444073)
Open source stuff is often ported to other architectures because it's open source. The point here is using microsoft tools makes that difficult... though I'm not sure why anyone would find that surprising.
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