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

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

I agree.

No one who is using FLOSS stacks will jump to .NET just because it is
now MIT licensed and open source.

But, for shops who use .NET already, and pondering a move to a Linux
stack, they may consider staying with .NET and having minimal changes
for it to work, rather than rewrite everything.

So, maybe it is a customer retention move on Microsoft's part ...

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --   Leonardo da Vinci
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