Well, no. It's closed source (which is of no consequence to development really unless there are bugs in the runtime which there tend not to be) but is an open specification. There is absolutely nothing to stop anyone from developing their own runtimes should they wish (as Mono have done quite successfully).In terms of the runtime being closed... isn't that kind of essential to .NET development?
Sorry, I thought the conversation was about openness, not cost. Different argument entirely. Visual Studio is free for non-commercial development if that swings you?sorry, was referring to the fact that all their software is free to use... see my qualifier that the fact that they are open is debateable...
Sorry, I thought the conversation was about openness, not cost. Different argument entirely. Visual Studio is free for non-commercial development if that swings you?
And, in fairness, the only reason they do that is because they can and it pisses off Microsoft.
Wait until you have to scale a site to more than 5 usersI'm very satisfied with Rails development, that's good enough reason for me to stay with that...