It's my hope that Microsoft will release C# fully to the open source community so that its goodness can spread and usurp the unholy Java reign. I, for one, am tired of being in Java's grip.

Microsoft’s object-oriented language for .NET has closed the gap with Java in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. Microsoft’s C# language is creeping up on Java in the Tiobe ...

In brief: According to the Tiobe index of language popularity, the gap between Java and C# is so small that if the current trends remain unchanged, C# will overtake Java in about two months.