[bliti]

I've been really trying to go FOSS (or even OSS) with .NET. But the community does not seem to be very open to it. They do upvote, star or otherwise applaud the effor. Yet nobody uses it. Or even makes the effort to try. My experience with the Python community is quite different. People not only accept the work provided, they actually try and use it and give feedback. It feels good to get a pull request improving something you did. The issue might be that .NET has been promoted as closed source by MS for so long. It might take years before the user base warms up to these new changes.

[marpstar]

I work with an entire department of C# developers, and frankly I don't think they care at all about OSS or giving back to the community. It's kind of a bummer, but I've tried to generate enthusiasm around open sourcing some of our components and was met with blank stares.

We've been a Microsoft shop from the start and it's obvious.

[bliti]

OT: What a coincidence. A friend was talking about cartegraph the other day (talking about .NET and OMSs).