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Adding a Fully-Bootstrapped Mono
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This meant that the C# package in question de facto required strictly Microsoft's (er, I mean, "the .NET foundation"'s) .NET implementation — hereafter referred to as "dotnet" — and a very recent version no less. They differed in goals, licenses, and methods: Portable.NET was a GNU project concerned with, among other things, limiting the ability of Microsoft to impose vendor lock-in via its proprietary .NET implementation and software patents. So, in reality, for the span of time from November 28, 2016 to September 28, 2021, anybody sitting on the network path between GitHub and any Mono developer updating the roslyn-binaries submodule could decide on any arbitrary new commit to be used.
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