www.reincubate.com
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Microsoft made a half-hearted attempt to “open” the languages by publishing an ECMA standards document, and there is an Open Source implementation ( Mono ) available, but for the most part development with.NET requires use of Microsoft operating systems and licenses.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels."
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