Lazycoder

dotNet OSS and company support.

The .Net Open Source Community

I’ll even contend that the .Net open source community is even stronger that the Java community, because, for the most part, the .Net community does its thing without the support of large companies, which gives the community more of a grass roots feeling.

WTF?! While I love his list I gotta take (throw?) exception with his statement about the .NET OSS communities lack of company support. How many of the authors/developers in that project list are MVP’s? Which means they get not only a large, expensive array of MS dev tools for FREE but they also get upgraded access to MS devs, although with the start of the blogs.msdn.com site that kind of access is more available to non-MVP’s as well. Heck RSS Bandit is written by a Softie!

So I’ve got to disagree with the assertion that there isn’t any company support within the .NET OSS community. I think, as others have pointed out, that the general strength of the .NET community as a whole is the fact that we all seem to work together and help each other out. Java get togethers, for the most part, are far less fun that MS get togethers.

Oh and I’ll tack on one more to the list, Genghis.