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I don't get how NuGet is FOSS unfriendly. I mean, at worst you could set up your own repository. All the tools are local. It wouldn't be difficult to set up your own source if that was absolutely necessary.
The whole thing is built around pulling binary packages from servers, and there's no consistent way of building those things from source.
It's extremely difficult to package anything non-trivial without referencing those binary blobs.
They had to build this whole custom thing (https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet) just to make the SDK itself buildable from source, and most releases still have some binary dependencies. They only did it for the SDK so it could be packaged in Debian, etc.