Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Jan 2008 21:50 UTC, submitted by William Lahti
.NET (dotGNU too) SharpOS 0.0.1 has been released. "The SharpOS project is aimed at writing an operating system in 100% C#. This originally proved to be a problem of nearly philosophical proportions because C# is a managed language, and by nature isn't designed for such low-level uses as developing an operating system kernel. Please note that although our goal is to create an operating system in C#, the infrastructure we have created allows kernels to be written in any language that targets the Common Intermediate Language bytecodes and exposes pointers and unsafe code."
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RE[3]: Very cool!
by fury on Wed 2nd Jan 2008 06:03 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Very cool!"
fury
Member since:
2005-09-23

Actually by "free software" I meant free as in freedom, and yes, that is what GNU and other _free software supporters_ call software covered by GPL.

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RE[4]: Very cool!
by pinky on Wed 2nd Jan 2008 11:34 in reply to "RE[3]: Very cool!"
pinky Member since:
2005-07-15

>Actually by "free software" I meant free as in freedom, and yes, that is what GNU and other _free software supporters_ call software covered by GPL.

Not only GPL licensed software is Free Software. BSD, X11, MIT, Apache,... licensed software is Free Software too.

BTW: Why have you added a linking exception to the GPL?

Edited 2008-01-02 11:40

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v RE[5]: Very cool!
by vtolkov on Wed 2nd Jan 2008 18:11 in reply to "RE[4]: Very cool!"
RE[4]: Very cool!
by wannabe geek on Thu 3rd Jan 2008 17:27 in reply to "RE[3]: Very cool!"
wannabe geek Member since:
2006-09-27

"Erm... according to your wiki, you use the GPL. Unless that page was false, that makes SharpOS open source software, not free software. "

Smacks of ... yeah, you got it.

DNFTT

;)

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