.NET Foundation
Microsoft organization for .NET
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| Founded | March 31, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-03-31)[1] |
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| Founder | Microsoft |
Tax ID no. | 47-2119192[2] |
| Legal status | 501(c)(6) organization |
| Headquarters | Redmond, Washington, U.S.[2] |
Executive Director | Tom Pappas[3] |
| Website | dotnetfoundation |
The .NET Foundation is an organization incorporated on March 31, 2014,[1] by Microsoft to improve open-source software development and collaboration around the .NET Framework.[4] It was launched at the annual Build 2014 conference held by Microsoft.[5] The foundation is license-agnostic, and projects that come to the foundation are free to choose any open-source license, as defined by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).[6] The foundation uses GitHub to host the open-source projects it manages.[7]
Anyone who has contributed to .NET Foundation projects can apply to be a .NET Foundation member. Members can vote in elections for the board of the directors and will preserve the health of the organization.[8]
The foundation began with twenty-four projects under its stewardship including .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") and the ASP.NET family of open-source projects, both open-sourced by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech).[5] Xamarin contributed six of its projects including the open source email libraries MimeKit and MailKit.[5] As of May 2020[update], it is the steward of 556 active projects,[9] including: .NET, Entity Framework (EF), Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), MSBuild, NuGet, Orchard CMS and WorldWide Telescope. Many of these projects are also listed under Outercurve Foundation project galleries.
As of June 2022[update], its board of directors consisted of Bill Wagner, Javier Lozano, Rich Lander, Frank Odoom, Mattias Karlsson, Rob Prouse and Shawn Wildermuth.[10]
See also
Free and open-source software portal
References
- ^ a b ".NET Foundation". Registration Data Search. Corporations Division. Washington State Secretary of State. Accessed on March 30, 2016.
- ^ a b "NET Foundation". Guidestar. Accessed on March 30, 2016.
- ^ "Board of Directors and Administrative Team".
- ^ Lardinois, Frederic (April 3, 2014). "Microsoft Launches .NET Foundation To Foster The .NET Open Source Ecosystem". TechCrunch.
- ^ a b c Paoli, Jean (April 3, 2014). ".NET Foundation Established to Foster Open Development". MS Open Tech. Archived from the original on May 21, 2015. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)". .NET Foundation. Archived from the original on May 14, 2016. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
- ^ ".NET Foundation". GitHub.
- ^ ".NET Foundation Membership". dotnetfoundation.org. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
- ^ ".NET Foundation". dotnetfoundation.org. Archived from the original on May 9, 2020.
- ^ ".NET Foundation Board of Directors". .NET Foundation. Archived from the original on November 24, 2020. Retrieved March 13, 2021.
External links
- Official website
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- Where do you want to go today? (1994)
- Champagne (2002)
- Mojave Experiment (2006)
- I'm a PC (2008)
- Scroogled (2012)
- Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft
- Apple v. Microsoft
- Microsoft v. Commission
- FTC v. Microsoft
- Microsoft v. Lindows
- Microsoft v. MikeRoweSoft
- Microsoft v. Shah
- United States v. Microsoft (2001 antitrust case)
- Microsoft v. United States (2018 data privacy case)
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