First Mentioned on TheRegister five years ago :-)
18 Apr 2012
The obvious next step is to open-source “.net” and let the common language runtime spread to big-data and cloud computing (Azure is a failure while the while it’s runtime is proprietary).. they’ve done it before with ROTAR and .NET Micro Framework.. they really have nothing to loose
13 Mar 2012
..but if MS is smart they’ll open source .NET and give Azure a real chance of being the “Cloud Level Runtime” (CLR), and flank Oracle at the same time.
26 Jan 2012
The magic will come with the integration of Linux with the Azure application platform through .NET services running on Linux either through a Mono commercial support licence (with Xamarin) or the bold open-sourcing of MS .NET
19 Sep 2011
...and the next step... open source .NET
26 May 2011
• .NET CLR on other platforms.. won’t damage Windows, but will flank Oracle
7 Apr 2011
Great.. we'll have .NET on ChromeOS
5 Feb 2010
Most importantly they need to unbundle .NET from Windows to prepare the foundations to grow into a technology leader for the next millennium.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
