.NET for freebsd

[Gabriel Veneat]

actually bsd was the only nonwindows platform Microsoft offered their 
shared source Common Language Infrastructure,project known as "Rotor"

sort of 
"we do share...see ???!?! but not with the penguin guys"

see the O'Reilly site
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/03/27/gettingstarted.html
and Microsoft
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/MSDN-FILES/027/002/097/msdncompositedoc.xml