[Tfug] MS .NET source code--look but don't touch

Jude Nelson judecn at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 09:05:45 MST 2007


This is yet another reason why I don't use GNOME--most of it's applets
are written in C# and depend on mono.

On 10/5/07, Eric M. Gearhart <eric at nixwizard.net> wrote:
> Does anyone else have the urge to STAY AS FAR AWAY as possible from anything
> MS releases under 'Shared Source'? It sounds like anything else you work on
> after signing that NDA would possibly be 'tainted' by MS's intellectual
> property.
>
> This is quite a turnaround from their CEO Steve Ballmer calling Open Source
> a 'cancer.' I guess in step one you try to scare people away, and when that
> doesn't work step two is pretend to dip your toe into what you previously
> tried to scare people away from.
>
> --
> Eric
> http://nixwizard.net
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