YESTERDAY in the IRC channels there was this discussion about how Microsoft had leveraged the word "core". It's so flexible a word. Just about everything has a core. Consider Microsoft's Open Cloud Summit and the infamous Open Core Summit which censors people. Be very wary and suspicious of the word "core" (e.g. ".NET Core") unless it refers to a processor. Otherwise it's a shrewdly-marketed trap. ⬆

--Joe Wilcox, Microsoft Fan, 14 June 2006