Microsoft released .NET as open source

[maks]

the .net runtime isn't a problem, I install it once and it's updated by the same windows update that patches everything else, and it doesn't bitch at my users 20 times a day to update it like fucking java and fucking flash, so they don't come to me 20 times a day asking what they should do even though I already told them never update anything

[Autistic Spectrum]

you can slip stream the net runtime into your installer as well