Microsoft's been open-sourcing more and more SDKs for a while now. It's good to hear about another, but what's really interesting to me is the bit about partnering with Xamarin.
Since its inception there's been fear about Mono being a dangerous platform to develop on because Microsoft might try to torpedo the project at any moment. This is far from the first time that Microsoft has publicly given the Mono project their blessing, but one that comes in the form of a business partnership is still nice in that it might help cut through the FUD just a little bit more.
There is also https://github.com/MSOpenTech - that has the redis 2.4 version for Windows using bksave-cow (background save in a thread with copy-on-write) instead of fork()/save...
Microsoft torpedos lots of things and Mono will eventually be one of them. No self-respecting *nix engineer would allow Mono on his system so it's rather pointless. Only Microsoft people want Mono, never the other way.
I'm sure Microsoft's "open source" is not as "open source" as anything from anyone else.
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[ 6.7 ms ] story [ 12.8 ms ] threadSince its inception there's been fear about Mono being a dangerous platform to develop on because Microsoft might try to torpedo the project at any moment. This is far from the first time that Microsoft has publicly given the Mono project their blessing, but one that comes in the form of a business partnership is still nice in that it might help cut through the FUD just a little bit more.
I suspect Azure will continue to use Github; moving would disrupt a lot of developers.
https://github.com/WindowsAzure
I'm sure Microsoft's "open source" is not as "open source" as anything from anyone else.