Hey folks,
Back in 2014, .NET was open-sourced. It’s now 2021, dotnet/core#505 was opened in 2017. Last week the .NET SDK had code ripped out of it by a CVP to sell more Visual Studio licenses.
"Product managers don't have the authority to yank something in a release candidate with a go-live license :)" - Phillip Carter
It's time to increase the heat and awareness of dotnet/core#505 - the singular thing that stands in the way of .NET completing its transition to an open programming language.
Introducing https://isdotnetopen.com/
This Ballmeresq cold war with tooling vendors only harms the ecosystem. The more people who can use .NET and that are attracted to .NET the more Microsoft can sell Azure because there’s great attach rates and uplift between .NET folks and Azure.
".NET, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Code are all expensive ad campaigns funded by Azure. .NET and Visual Studio have excellent attach rate to Azure" - msft-throwaway
Every marketing activity (omg lost count) Microsoft has done with .NET about rar rar rar “we are open-source” is fundamentally lipstick on a pig if there is no way to debug programs authored in the language. What use is an open-source programming language that can’t be debugged?