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Re:Microsoft .NET CoreCLR is now running on FreeBSD 10.1 (am... by petecox on Friday April 24, 2015 @04:47AM (#9432085)
Unless it works flawlessly under Wine, you still need to run it within a Windows desktop.

A Windows 8.1 Pro OEM license costs around $150, which if you're building a FreeBSD desktop from scratch won't come included in the purchase price.

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Re:Microsoft .NET CoreCLR is now running on FreeBSD 10.1 (am... by hobs on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @12:37AM (#9456500)
Sure, and that is a fair point, I was just responding to the "sell more visual studio", but of course driving the windows ecosystem in some ways (online, os, whatever) is their stated goal.
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