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Re:Microsoft Is the New Google, Google Is the Old Microsoft by cowardlydragon on Thursday February 19, 2015 @12:40PM (#9075444)
A free compiler and dev tools? Revolutionary.

Or, completely the norm in Ruby, Python, Java... um, every other language.

Did they OSS the IDE?

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Re:Microsoft Is the New Google, Google Is the Old Microsoft by jdmichal on Thursday February 19, 2015 @01:00PM (#9075615)
You mean the Java for which the reference VM (Hotspot) and compiler were not open-sourced until November 13, 2006 [1], roughly corresponding with the Java 6 release?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK#Sun.27s_promise_and_ini...

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Re:Microsoft Is the New Google, Google Is the Old Microsoft by nvivo on Thursday February 19, 2015 @05:10PM (#9077455)
The compilers for .net were always free and were in every installation of the framework since the first version on 2003. And there were open source IDEs for .NET since the beginning.
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