[Ilugc] Open.NET?

Anthoni Shogan anthonishogan at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 11:51:15 IST 2007


Prem Kurian Philip wrote:
> What does anyone think of MS allowing people access to the source (to
> view, not to add/edit) for the .NET framework?
> 

I don't see what good the .NET framework source can do when it can only 
be viewed. Certainly sounds like a setup.

> For me that sounds like a setup - if there is anyone on this list who is
> working on developing code for Mono, Rotor etc, may I caution you against
> looking at the source code for the MS's .NET framework? Because if you do
> look at the source code, then MS can claim that you are stealing the code
> for Mono/Rotor.
> 

Doesn't matter whether Mono, Rotor developers look at the source or not. 
Interesting move my M$, if this works it's going to work very well for them.

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Anthoni Shogan




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