ByLaw founder organisation #49
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I think I first learned about the .NET Foundation during .NET Conf 2020. I remember thinking at the time "this sounds very much like Microsoft pretending it is not Microsoft". I did not know about the Founding Member status or the director-with-veto, but now I think it sounds even more like "Microsoft pretending it is not Microsoft".
If you were to say to me "quick, what is .NET in one sentence", I would probably reply something like this: "a runtime, a set of libraries, and tooling, chiefly developed by Microsoft". Now, I may be reading more into "when they think of .NET" than you intend, but I suspect that by ".NET" you mean "the runtime, libraries, tooling as well as the community and projects built around those things". I would disagree (though I can get on board with some poetic licence along the lines of E Pluribus Unum, but only poetically) and say that "the community and projects built around those things" is distinct from ".NET". Which that in mind, when I think of .NET as
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As I've written, and written, and spoken about elsewhere, the issue is not that Microsoft has a seat on the board; the issue is that the .NET Foundation -- for all intents and purposes -- mimics an extension of Microsoft's desires for .NET. How does this manifest itself?
Here's what an independent .NET foundation would look like:
This is what the .NET community needs from my perspective; I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on this. This affects all of us. |
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There's been some discussion asking if the foundation bylaws having specific reference to Microsoft as the founding organisation and special veto rights creates a conflict of interest.
Is this even on the table to change at the moment? Is it important?
When they think of .NET, people generally associate Microsoft as the most significant contributor to the source code.
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