Bruno Almeida said:
A friend of mine told me C# is not owned by Microsoft anymore and so does
.NET framework. Is it true?
Not entirely, ATM, the driving force behind C# is Microsoft, however there
is an ECMA\ISO language and base class library spec. The .NET framework
itself is controlled by Microsoft, however other vendors may develop a good
portion of the framework(things like ADO.NET and ASP.NET aren't covered,
however, although I think it might be prudent to standardize ASP.NET or
atleast offer licensing)
Frankly, I don't see why it matters though, its not like java is guarenteed
to be open either.
Guess it's because open source community. Hope we can get some nice
projects as in Java. I can't barely wait for signing me up in a C# open
source project.
Look around, there are a number going. Basic things right now, like
nant(port of ant), NDoc, etc.
There is also mono, which is an open source implementation of C# and the
BCL(
www.go-mono.com).
