I don't think "was always" is an accurate statement However, above and beyond free, it is also a collection of ECMA standards https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us

I don't think "was always" is an accurate statement However, above and beyond free, it is also a collection of ECMA standards https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/standards https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/standa... Now, don't get me wrong: I have grave suspicions there is currently only one actual implementation of them (I don't count hobby, or abandonware, ones) but IMHO "actual standard" combined with "for real reference implementation" is way better than just reference implementation --- since I'm still within the edit window, the MAUI referenced by the sibling comment is MIT licensed https://github.com/dotnet/maui https://github.com/dotnet/maui https://github.com/dotnet/blazor https://github.com/dotnet/blazor (Apache 2) is marked an archived, and points to https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore (MIT) but command-f blazor on its readme is nothing so :shrug: