RE: [NF] Why OpenSource .NET?

FWIW here's Rick Strahl's commentary on the .Net Core release.

http://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2016/Jan/21/Microsoft-renames-ASPNET-5-to-...

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rk

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 9:25 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Why OpenSource .NET?

Ed,

It is under the MIT License according to this.

https://github.com/dotnet/corefx

It is worth noting that .NET Core != the .NET Framework. It is just essentially at the moment (as far as I can tell) a FOSS implementation of the Common Language Runtime.

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