<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Everything is calculated to drive users to Microsoft Office, Windows Server, or Windows clients. There will be .Net functions that require OS APIs that are only available through MS Office or Microsoft Server/Clients. Or ADO will require MSSQL. I expect to see goofy things like that. </div><div><br></div><div>Business clients want supported products. How many software development firms are going to support their code on other platforms? This could be just a PR move. <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Dec 9, 2014, at 4:40 PM, <a href="mailto:frank.dolinar@comcast.net">frank.dolinar@comcast.net</a> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="undefined">Perhaps, Microsoft is finally realizing how many developers it threw away when it killed FoxPro. Though, I doubt even that would move it off square one.</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Tom McArthur" <<a href="mailto:ThomasMcA@live.com">ThomasMcA@live.com</a>><br><b>To: </b>"GLLUG Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, December 9, 2014 2:47:03 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[GLLUG] M$ opens up Visual Studio and .NET to EVERY Developer.<br><div><br></div><big>From M$:<br> <br> Over the coming months, we will be open sourcing the full server-side .NET Core stack, from <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a> 5 down to the Core Runtime and Framework. And the open source .NET will be expanded to run on Linux and Mac OS X in addition to Windows. <br> </big><div class="moz-forward-container"><big><br> <a href="http://click.email.microsoftemail.com/?qs=8991208a2237d65ed864f4f6858b4eb0fc4b80b952c2873f62412bd77d353a22d7ee771e06e0c621" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://click.email.microsoftemail.com/?qs=8991208a2237d65ed864f4f6858b4eb0fc4b80b952c2873f62412bd77d353a22d7ee771e06e0c621">Learn more</a>.<br> <br> M$ never "gives in" to their competition, so I wonder what their motives are.<br> <br> Tom<br> </big></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>linux-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><br><a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>linux-user mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a></span><br><span><a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>