>>>Intel Delivers an Open Source Language Research Platform; Computer Language Research Promotes Portability and Performance
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>>It looks like Intel has thrown down the gauntlet to Microsoft's CLR. Microsoft is a big customer of Intel, I wonder why they would do this?
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>That's an interesting moment from the article:
>"This open source software release includes C source code for all of the environment's components and a royalty free redistribution license. The source code was developed in both the Windows and LINUX environments."

This is impressive. Open source and both platforms.