Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
by pikachu_is_cool on Friday April 04, 2014 @12:59AM
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> by spreading FUD
Refers to this, if anyone was not aware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents
So not dissimilar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client ?
But Microsoft wanted to remove the open web, in favour of all their proprietary services, such as Active-X. Places like South Korea foolishly followed the MS paradigm, and they are suffering for it now. Microsoft wanted to control everything, and kill Linux and over open source projects by spreading FUD.