Prince of Persia

Microsoft is going to open source .NET, and will be bringing it to Linux and OS X.
Not just that, from the looks of it, they'll be using a - the MIT - Free software license too.

Here is the announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/ ... ource.aspx
And also: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/ ... r-net.aspx
And here is the source: https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet -- actually just some links to other GitHub projects that contain the actual sources.
And here: http://referencesource.microsoft.com

By the way, it was posted only a few hours ago. How did you find it so fast?

Finding it fast; probably just looks that way because of time zones settings/differences.

I've looked a bit more into Microsoft's announcement and people's reactions, and it seems this is only about the server-side .NET core stack.
No GUI components or whatever. I know too little about it all to have a real opinion, but it still seems like interesting news.

Good news, but there is Mono, that is bigger and have been updated with the net core + additions...

Norbert wrote: Finding it fast; probably just looks that way because of time zones settings/differences.

When I posted that, the main page of their blog said "2 hours ago". Now it says "22 hours ago".

Very interesting, its the first step
Mono is a super project the little problem was xamarin it own the commercial license for iOS Mac and Android...

.NET Core Runtime (CoreCLR) is now also open source, MIT license.
Info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/ ... ource.aspx

MSBuild too.

It looks like the next Microsoft Visual Studio will be able to export to non-Windows platforms.
"Build for iOS, Android, Windows devices, Windows Server or Linux"

Related:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archi ... nload.aspx
"Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download"

Notepad now supports Unix(-like) newlines:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/comman ... n-notepad/
It's weird that this took so long. In particular if, according to their own words, it was "a major annoyance for developers, IT Pros, administrators, and end users throughout the community". I remember running into this myself when I was a young child, maybe 25 years ago. I had to use WordPad, which had its own problems (IIRC, among other things, back in the day, it launched too slowly).