Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Opening Up .Net to Everyone

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Posted by Patrick Giagnocavo on
It is doomed to failure.

Since MSFT controls the specs, they will change the specs at
random to break the open source version.  Customers relying on
.Net will eventually get fed up and either go with MSFT ("it's more
compatible") or continue using the Linux version, which over time
will diverge from the MSFT version; thus defeating the original
goal of compatibility.

Remember, "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run".