XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > On Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:41:11 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >   
   >> Does C# qualify as a Microsoft proprietary language? Or are there   
   >> implementations on OSes other than Windows (and compilers, either   
   >> open source or available from other vendors)?   
   >   
   > The only implementation I’m aware of is Microsoft’s one built on top   
   > of Dotnet.   
   >   
   > Dotnet itself is supposedly open-source and portable to some degree   
   > now. There are reports of it running on Linux.   
      
          
      
       Install .NET on Linux   
      
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