Hi, > >I have no interest or plans to do a PocketPC port myself (if I had a pda > >I'd run a useful operating system on it, like Linux). > > Sure... Linux runs on every PDA out there....
That's not quite true - there are some that it refuses to run on due to problems with the interface and pointing devices. > Mr. Paolo, it seems that you've managed to pass your anger against > microsoft in a single "textual" sentence. No problem... I'm also not > very fond of it either. But, as it seems, when the market DO buy those > PDAs, and when people ONLY use them, if you want to sell a product, > you have to develop for that OS... There's no point in so much anger, > is there? This isn't ideological discussion. It's a fact! You're totally correct. However, on the other side of the coin, if you never offer them a choice, you get nowhere. We can go into the whys and wherefores from now until sometime approaching the year dot on how the computing industry has managed to get into such a poor state, but it is a waste of time and resources. I'm with both of you on this one. > Hmmm... After all... Mono do exist after a product from Microsoft... Correct. Why not just use cygwin and bung it onto the PDA after all? > If people want to change this scenario, it's not only in the hands of > the tool developers, it's also in the hands of the application > developers. Yep. As we all know, anything written in C# and compiled using Mono will work correctly on a Windows box. All you need is a blatant advert on all Mono packages saying so - not that the end user will give a toss. > Now guess what the end-user will choose... No. The end user uses the end product. They're not that interested in where it comes from. Case in point. Those who have used OpenOffice 2 often prefer it to MS Office 2003, yet those who buy the software for companies (etc) don't see the word MS and so avoid the far better alternative. Discuss. > >But you should feel free to contribute such port or to hire > >someone to do it. The same goes for a Symbian or RISC OS port. > > Well... I feel honored that you give me permission to contribute or > *hire* someone to do it. Come on. There are a number of companies out there using and contributing to Mono. What is to say one (or more than one) don't turn around and say "Hey you - here's a wad of money, now port Mono for platform_x"? > >I'm personally more interested in hearing from people with > >access to devices like the nokia 770, ipaqs running linux etc. > > Good luck with that. > Let me make one thing clear and straight: I didn't like your answer. I think we can tell! > You deserve everyone's respect for your efforts in the open-source > community, and that's it. I asked you a simple question, without > offending anyone. If you can't control your idealisms and respect the > others, well... Email me privately that I will answer you adequately. It's the old usenet idiom - you post here, you get a reply here. That is unless the reply is very specific (such as I've had in the past) > As for this mailing-list, all I have to ask is sorry for this post. > No further messages will be necessary in this thread. Oopsie. TTFN Paul -- "Some people will do anything for a woman in uniform" - The Doctor - Unregenerate (Big Finish audio) _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
