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		heartbreak on Dec 24, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open Source .NET three years later > If Microsoft doesn't pour a billion dollars into getting .Net ready for Linux in 2018, .Net is over. I feel very confident stating the opposite. If Microsoft halts all investment in .Net today, .Net will still be around another 30 years at least with maintenance work alone.

oblio on Dec 24, 2017 [–]

Yeah, but its direct competitor is also fine in this regard. If all Oracle employees are nuked tomorrow, Java will still outlive Cobol.

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