<html><body><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" <ThomasMcA@live.com><br><b>To: </b>"GLLUG Mailing List" <linux-user@egr.msu.edu><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$:<br> <br> Over the coming months, we will be open sourcing the full server-side .NET Core stack, from ASP.NET 5 down to the Core Runtime and Framework. And the open source .NET will be expanded to run on Linux and Mac OS X in addition to Windows. <br> </big><div class="moz-forward-container"><big><br> <a href="http://click.email.microsoftemail.com/?qs=8991208a2237d65ed864f4f6858b4eb0fc4b80b952c2873f62412bd77d353a22d7ee771e06e0c621" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://click.email.microsoftemail.com/?qs=8991208a2237d65ed864f4f6858b4eb0fc4b80b952c2873f62412bd77d353a22d7ee771e06e0c621">Learn more</a>.<br> <br> M$ 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>linux-user@egr.msu.edu<br>http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>