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The '''Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure''' (previously codenamed '''Rotor''') is [[Microsoft]]'s [[shared source]] reference implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure ([[Common Language Infrastructure|CLI]]), the core of [[Microsoft .NET|.NET]]. Shared source is not real [[open source]] (e.g. it's not suitable for commercial use) but it makes it possible for [[programmer]]s to view the source of many .NET libraries, as well as for [[hacker]]s to create and use modified CLI versions. Microsoft provides the Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure as an reference CLI implementation and expects Rotorit to be of real value to students learning cross-platform compiler technologies, class system design guidelines, and so on, being the real-world illustration to their lectures.

RotorThe Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure comes pre-configured to run on [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[FreeBSD]] (version 4.7 or newer), and [[Mac OS X]] 10.2. HoweverIt is designed such that the only thing that needs to be customized to port Rotorthe Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure to a different platform isshould be a thin PAL (platform abstraction layer), so basically Rotor is portable to any platform.

Rotor comes pre-configured to run on [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[FreeBSD]] (version 4.7 or newer), and [[Mac OS X]] 10.2. However the only thing that needs to be customized to port Rotor to a different platform is a thin PAL (platform abstraction layer), so basically Rotor is portable to any platform.

==See also==

*[[DotGNU]]

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*[http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3A1C93FA-7462-47D0-8E56-8DD34C6292F0&displaylang=en Microsoft Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure Page]

*[http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/07/SharedSourceCLI/ Introduction to Shared Source CLI]

*[http://www.123aspx.com/rotor/default.aspx Read Rotorthe Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure's source code online]

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