[9cb14c1ec0]

It's all open source and free, on Github. I've used .NET for about 10 years now, and the only money it has cost me is a few third party libraries that I couldn't find good open source competitors for.

[haolez]

But you've never seen it with a market share of more than 90%, which could happen eventually. It's a matter of incentives and those play against you.

[Salgat]

Microsoft owns the .NET trademark but the language and source code for the current runtime is freely forkable and usable by any person/company who wants to do their own implementation. It's no different than the situation with Oracle and Java.

[haolez]

That's actually a very good point. I'll rethink my position.