ISO/IEC as Industry standards. This is a very important step for
Microsoft and .Net platform because this enhances the credibility of
the newer .Net platform and allures a larger portion of technology
industry into adopting .Net as their development platform. Several
companies and government organizations only utilize ISO certified
technologies; for example, in Australia anything ISO certified is also
considered Australian standard according to the rules of the
Australian government. Several academic institutions will now be
interested in teaching standard C#. Another major outcome of having an
open industry standard specification is .Net platform could be getting
ported to other platforms like Linux and UNIX; best example is the
Mono Project by Ximian- it is an open source implementation of .Net
platform for UNIX and Linux based on ECMA approved Public Domain
Specification of C# and CLI.
Microsoft submitted the specifications to ECMA, which in turn
fast-tracked them through ISO. In doing so, Microsoft released all
intellectual property in the core C#/CLI platform to the public
domain. No one needs a license to implement C#/CLI. This will also
help everybody in better understanding the implementations of C# and
CLI which are at the core of .Net platform. However, the whole of .Net
platform is not a Public domain standard- Microsoft still owns
complete Intellectual property rights to several class libraries and
API within the .Net platform.
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