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by boyter 4527 days ago
Agreed. I wish they would would buy Xamarin and make it easy to build C# MVC applications and deploy on Linux/BSD. Give me that with entity framework to MySQL/Postgresql and I am sold. Will convert over to using it for everything. Add in ReSharper and it has the potential to be the most productive environment on any platform.
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goofygrin 4527 days ago
Can't sell windows server licenses if you let people run on Linux.

Xamarins price is way too high and I bet apple would block the apps built with it if msft bought them (and they'd likely sue for reverse engineering).

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taspeotis 4527 days ago
> apple would block the apps built with it

Apple went there [1] and failed [2].

[1] http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flas...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_and_Adobe_Flash_controver...

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