Jeff contends that "open source projects are treated as second-class citizens in the Microsoft ecosystem." He says Microsoft is not only wrong to withhold support from open source projects that ...

The group plans to work on open-source projects, including ones that could become consumer social media apps, along with ...

In the move from the ageing, Windows-only .NET Framework to the new open source, cross-platform .NET Core framework, some technologies weren't invited along for the ride, but open source projects may ...

Since open-sourcing .Net Core, Microsoft has offered other technologies up for open source, including CLR and its NuGet package technology. Previously, its Roslyn compiler project was made open ...

When Miguel de Icaza founded the Mono project in 2004, he was ridiculed. No way would Microsoft allow an open source implementation of its .Net platform to exist, critics said. Even after Mono ...

In theory, an open source .NET that runs on Linux and Mac OS will expand the use of Microsoft's developer tools.

Open-source fans announce the first steps in an effort to reproduce Microsoft's .Net technology so people can use it without Microsoft's involvement.

Microsoft made a huge move to embrace the open source software community by offering 24 of its .NET projects to developers this week at BUILD 2014.

Microsoft angered the .NET open source community this week, and the company has been forced to reverse a controversial decision. It follows weeks of unrest in the .NET community.

An update to the Mono open-source software development project brings programmers one step closer to writing Microsoft .Net applications for Linux and Unix.