Gotcha. Well if you are worried and your project isn't huge, I'm sure you can find people to help you if you search hard enough. Best of luck.

http://www.asp.net/open-source

I don't develop using windows by the way (I'm a hardcore linux type).

Microsoft is actively open sourcing large parts (if not all) of the C# development stack. You are linking to something that is several years old and is purely speculation.

To alleviate your fears:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-is-open-source.aspx

But to be more specific C# is a language. I cannot believe that the creator of any language would ever try to block a third party from using their language to develop open source software via patent litigation.

Indeed arguing with people who seem to take opinions so personally that they elevate them into the realm of actual physical harm are beyond my comprehension. They are imbeciles with digital pitchforks. That often end up financially harming other people. Other people whose opinions were causing zero financial harm (and certainly no physical harm).

Beautiful /s

I find the examples that conflate the contributors words with active child abuse and actually physical harm really interesting. Basically there are a lot of people out there who feel that opinions are equivalent to actual physical acts. How utterly fucked up is that?

Certainly words can make people feel bad. Physical abuse does make feel people bad (and sometimes maims them). I have found this opinion again and again when talking to people about various things: they feel that beliefs/words are as harmful as physical abuse/death! They claim these are equivalent often without even realizing it as they try to make their "all important" point. Seriously I think that conflating the two is disgusting.

I cannot wait for golang to finally wiggle its way onto this list.

It seems to me that systems like this that are primarily oriented towards communicating should be an unthrottled stream. If somebody comes asking for help, why not help them? Why chastize them for being curious? As a baseline if "/v/programming" becomes a cesspool of inept questions, then I am sure somebody can create a subverse titled "/v/godly-programmers".