[kwlug-disc] ASP.NET 5 for Linux?

[Ralph Janke]

Well, it means that M$ has started to understand that the world has
changed through FLOSS, and they have to go with the time.

Generally, I would be very careful about the t&c behind it. I have
not looked at the actual licenses and the restrictions or underlying
IP, which often is a problem.

ASP.Net and C# are not as mind blowing that I would change from
a traditional FLOSS language to it. In particular, most of the time
the libraries that are available under the fitting FLOSS license
are more  important.

However, I think it is  a good path for current ASP/NET developers
to find their way into FLOSS, and hence a further strengthening
of the FLOSS community.

tx


On 2014-11-13 10:21, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> I am not sure what to make of it.
> 
> Could be admission that the tech world has changed a lot and they are
> no longer dominant, with the proliferation of Linux in the server
> market, and Apple/Android in the mobile market.
> 
> Could be a desperate move trying to look nice and appeal to some who
> are considering moving to a Linux stack (Java, ...)
> 
> I can't think of how this would fit their old pattern of Embrace,
> Extend, Extinguish. They can't do that anymore across the board given
> the above.
> 
> C# is actually a decent language. They learned from forking Java, and
> fixed some of Java's misgivings in C#. They build .NET to be a
> bytecode like JVM. The major shortcoming of .NET is that it was
> Windows only. Perhaps they are trying to fix that. Now, can they
> really do that? With all the APIs that call Windows specific stuff?
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