cmenscher/C# is open?

## C# is open?
Wow!  I had no idea that Microsoft was so generous as to release a specification they designed to take marketshare/mindshare away from a competitor that they would let an international standards body govern it.  There certainly would be no marketing upside to that.  And I can't think of any other time they've done that before.  Oh wait:

OOXML vs. ODF
Sun JVM vs. MS JVM incompatibilities
Javacript vs. JScript
IE's original HTML "extensions"

They have a phrase for this over there:  "Embrace and extend".

In regards to Johnny Lee being Microsoft hobag, it's more than just his use of C#. His Wii Projects are all based on DirectX and Windows Presentation Framework.  Yes, there are free tools for developing in C# and DirectX/WPF.  Well, OK there's only one:  Visual Studio Express, which is targeted at beginners and designed to get you to "graduate" to their paid product.  But there is no way to run/develop in any other OS unless you use an emulator or WINE...and even then it's a dicey prospect.  I'm not saying C# isn't a decent language.  But it's disingenuous to assume that his decision to use C# was because it's so vastly superior.

I'd also like to add that Java's very creation was predicated upon the notion of "Write Once/Run Anywhere".  While the language itself may not be a bastion of Open Sourceness, it certainly blows the doors off C# in this regard.  But I don't think he should have written these tools in Java.  They should have been written in C++, which enjoys  support on every computing platform on the planet.
	Wow! I had no idea that Microsoft was so generous as to release a specification they designed to take marketshare/mindshare away from a competitor that they would let an international standards body govern it. There certainly would be no marketing upside to that. And I can't think of any other time they've done that before. Oh wait:

	OOXML vs. ODF
	Sun JVM vs. MS JVM incompatibilities
	Javacript vs. JScript
	IE's original HTML "extensions"

	They have a phrase for this over there: "Embrace and extend".

	In regards to Johnny Lee being Microsoft hobag, it's more than just his use of C#. His Wii Projects are all based on DirectX and Windows Presentation Framework. Yes, there are free tools for developing in C# and DirectX/WPF. Well, OK there's only one: Visual Studio Express, which is targeted at beginners and designed to get you to "graduate" to their paid product. But there is no way to run/develop in any other OS unless you use an emulator or WINE...and even then it's a dicey prospect. I'm not saying C# isn't a decent language. But it's disingenuous to assume that his decision to use C# was because it's so vastly superior.

	I'd also like to add that Java's very creation was predicated upon the notion of "Write Once/Run Anywhere". While the language itself may not be a bastion of Open Sourceness, it certainly blows the doors off C# in this regard. But I don't think he should have written these tools in Java. They should have been written in C++, which enjoys support on every computing platform on the planet.