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by scholia 3506 days ago
> 1995 - circa 2014

Microsoft launched CodePlex for open source development in 2006, and it had released some bits of code before that.

Microsoft also started releasing .NET source code in January 2008 under its MS-RSL license [1], so there's been a long transition, not a sudden recent change.

[1] https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/releasing-the-source-code-fo...