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The '''Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure''' (SSCLI), previously codenamed '''Rotor''', is [[Microsoft]]'s [[shared source]] implementation of the [[Common Language Infrastructure|CLI]], the core of [[Microsoft .NET|.NET]]. Although the SSCLI is not suitable for commercial use due to its license, it does make it possible for [[programmer]]s to examine the implementation details of many .NET libraries, as well as for [[Hacker (computing)|hackers]]and to create and use modified CLI versions. Microsoft provides the Shared Source CLI as a reference CLI implementation andsuited expectsfor iteducational 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 lecturesuse.

The Shared Source CLI was pre-configured to run on [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[FreeBSD]] (version 4.7 or newer), and [[Mac OS X]] 10.2. It is designed such that the only thing that needs to be customized to port the Shared Source CLI to a different platform should be a thin [[Abstraction layer|Platform Abstraction Layer]] (PAL).