Call my bluff – how smart is reverse engineering .NET?

The Register: “So who’s calling whose bluff? An intriguing game of chicken is enveloping
Microsoft’s plans to port its C# language and run-time to BSD, with software libre
leaders vowing to give the Beast a taste of its own embrace n’ extend medicine.

How wise this high profile and risky counter attack will prove to be, we shall
examine in a moment. But first some background.”