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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by caycep on Thursday April 03, 2014 @02:34PM (#7525003)
signs of the new Satya Nadella era?
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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by ygra on Thursday April 03, 2014 @02:51PM (#7525122)
All this started long ago. Roslyn has been in development for a few years and that was still under Ballmer's leadership. Also many of the other things they're unveiling and open-sourcing now started way before Nadella took over as CEO.

But my guess would be that Ballmer stepping down was sort of symbolic in this regard. With a new CEO it looks more like a "new Microsoft" doing all these things.

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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by dkuntz2 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:46PM (#7526490)
Just because they were working on it before doesn't mean that the plan at the time was to open-source those things...
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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by untaken on Thursday April 03, 2014 @05:37PM (#7527028)
They couldn't have done it that fast. They just couldn't do it while Ballmer was there - not after his anti-OSS rants.

And he knew it.

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