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You know but this is actually very good. This in the end will make it better for the developers. And I loved that the licensing is MIT instead of Mono's LGPL for the runtime.

This will allow Jetbrains to create a good Intelli(j|n) IDE for C#. :D

You really need to step back and look at how much Microsoft has already changed under the leadership of Satya Nadella.

It does appear that he has a completely different vision of what Microsoft will be in the future compared to what Ballmer had.

The devil you know eh?

Microsoft has being at the locus of so much bad behaviour in the tech sector that I really have to wonder. Even if Stallman started running the company, how much could it change?

I'd say it started long before Satya Nadella became CEO. However it is definitely continuing in the right direction.

aka "Thanks for giving us what we want, but you're so evil that I can't get past the $ in the name Micro$oft."

Stay closed source? People bitch.

Open source the software? People bitch.

Can't win.

Well I'm one of those people that bitched for as long as the CLR remained closed-source. Not anymore :-)