Re: .NET Core is now open source

2014-11-14 Thread David Rhys Jones
You are forgetting the "Must have apple kit" to develop and compile, that adds quite a bit more onto the $99. The need to buy a mac just to write IPhone apps is what is stopping me from doing so. Davy. *Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes*. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Michael Ridla

Re: .NET Core is now open source

2014-11-14 Thread Michael Ridland
Ha ha you could never use Apple as a reference for being friendly To devs, in the early days of iOS their platform was hardly documented and ide absolute junk, then you couldn't even talk in public forums about anything. Swift was many many years overdue. Apple don't give a $&#& about developers, p

Re: .NET Core is now open source

2014-11-14 Thread Stephen Price
free? or Free? :) On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Bec Carter wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Michael Ridland wrote: > >> >> Well you can't sell software anymore only devices and services, why not >> open source and sell azure. It's a great and essential business move for >> MS.

Re: .NET Core is now open source

2014-11-13 Thread Stephen Price
It's exciting. In comparison, to develop in the Apple world, you download XCode for free, sign up to the Developer program ($99) and that's it. Compare to Microsoft is somewhat more expensive. MSDN Ultimate is around the $10K mark. The Visual Studio Community stuff is great to see. I'm wondering wh

Re: .NET Core is now open source

2014-11-13 Thread Bec Carter
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Michael Ridland wrote: > > Well you can't sell software anymore only devices and services, why not > open source and sell azure. It's a great and essential business move for > MS. Now MS just need to make Windows free > Definitely good news for any Microsoft

RE: .NET Core is now open source

2014-11-13 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
2014 5:59 PM To: ozDotNet (ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com) Subject: .NET Core is now open source This is something that my immediate team has been pushing for a little while internally and finally announced yesterday: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-is-open-source.as px. This

Re: .NET Core is now open source

2014-11-13 Thread Michael Ridland
Well you can't sell software anymore only devices and services, why not open source and sell azure. It's a great and essential business move for MS. Definitely good news for any Microsoft developers, especially since over the last few years we've been getting 'beaten' by rails and other platforms

.NET Core is now open source

2014-11-13 Thread David Kean
This is something that my immediate team has been pushing for a little while internally and finally announced yesterday: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-is-open-source.aspx. This is going to be pretty massive for Microsoft and the community. It will be the biggest cod