Post #1308462
2026-02-19 15:01 UTC
@agowa338 @raymaccarthy @blinry the open sourcing of dotNET was largely due to the Mono project, an independent reimplementation that started out as a way to run Silverlight (dotNET browser extensions) on Linux, and grew into a company that could compile C# for iOS, which Microsoft bought, and incrementally merged the Mono and dotNET
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@agowa338@chaos.social 2026-02-19 15:03
@ShadSterling @raymaccarthy @blinry Well not just that. The community also for long asked for it and the development team also eyed with breaking out of the corporate Microsoft release cycle if I recall correctly.
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-02-19 15:06
@ShadSterling @agowa338 @blinry Except I couldn't get Silverlight to run on any browser on Linux. The company I was advising did most of their work online using Silverlight. Ironically MS was even then depreciating it!