Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO
by spiderPig on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @07:21PM
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And I'm totally stoked to learn that Scott Guthrie has been promoted to take Satya's place. Both of you guys are awesome! Now when are you going to open up C#, CLR and buy Xamarin ;)?
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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO
by shanselman on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @07:30PM
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Things are pretty open now, but we're going to open things up as much as we can.
As for buying them, why mess up a good thing?
Because we'd love to use C# across more platforms, and the 2nd class citizen status of Mono in the *nix world makes us sad :(
Ah just so they have access to the vast resources and become 1st party libraries. Mono is not known in most of the linux world and Microsoft support would be a significant boost. Businesses would also be hesitant to support it adopt it unless Microsoft is backing the platform.
Microsoft supporting Mono would not be a good boost in the eyes of most Linux people, as far as I can tell. In fact, Miguel de Icaza connections to Microsoft have been cited as an argument against Mono.
The fact that Mono is a reimplementation of something Microsoft did actually went against it for a lot of *nix people. Which is dumb and stupid, but hey, after Embrace Extend Extinguish, everyone got kinda jumpy. So, Microsoft purchasing it would be a hard sell, IMO.