Heard an unbelievable rumour the other day. Apparently Microsoft is thinking of making .Net available on Apple (on OS X / Free BSD). It seems that the BSD crowd feels vaguely resentful towards the Linux crowd for having better marketed essentially the same value proposition that they have had for much longer. Making .Net available on BSD will apparently undercut both the SunOne initiative (which right now is so much hot air and the iPlanet product line) and the Linux bandwagon. And of course it will give .Net a broader platform. I still think that it is an implausible scenario. But then the guy who shared this little tidbit is very well clued into Microsoft's thinking. Who knows?