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On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 21:18:51 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> 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.

It definitely runs on Linux and is easily installed with dnf or apt. GUIs 
have been problematic but console and ASP.NET workks fine.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet

This isn't Ballmer's Microsoft.