GNOME was betting on their own Vala language, which is still a thing, but never really gained much traction.
Eventually Microsoft bought Mono during their embrace of open source.
Do you have a source for the GNOME C# claim? I can't find one.
He also voiced back on twitter his disapproval on how Xamarin.Forms became MAUI.
And Miguel started Mono way before Microsoft made C# cross-platform. At that point they were antagonists.
When Mono came along, the internal position at Microsoft was surprisingly positive. There was a dev slide deck that went into Mono in some depth. And a telling slide that said it wasn't a threat because the performance wasn't competitive at the time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Common_Languag...
We could go back and check on Codeplex… oh wait.
Thank goodness MS got over their allergy to open source licenses, as they seem to prefer MIT nowadays for their releases.
My apologies for misremembering the details and being snarky. Humble pie eaten and enjoyed. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Common_Language_...
I have various snapshots of the Rotor 1 and 2 sources around and they have the SSCLI license. There is a file that contains BSD licensed code (pal\rotor_pal.h).
The only UNIX Microsoft has ever supported during pre-Satya days, was Rotor for FreeBSD, nothing else.
Mono and DotGNU had nothing to do with Microsoft until Xamarin acquisition.
I don't know what you're talking about, honestly. Maybe you're many years behind the current state of affairs.
.NET (core) is a very real thing. A extremely successful and powerful multi platform framework.