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Re:.NET 10 by throwaway7356 on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @02:43PM (#45905286)
> I've been a full-time C# developer since the first open beta and I have only one (1) instance where I used a commercial library. That was 2002

So you used C# without any of the .Net runtime? I don't think Microsoft did open source in 2002...

Even Mono was only started in 2004.

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Re:.NET 10 by toyg on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:21PM (#45905951)
Come on, it's clear he meant "commercial libraries not in the default Microsoft SDK".
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Re:.NET 10 by stuartd on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @06:21PM (#45908322)
Wix was open sourced in 2004 - https://www.computerworld.com/article/1580079/microsoft-goes...
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