Hi Everyone, I have been lurking on this list for a few days now after looking at go-mono.com. Just thought I would introduce myself. My name is Joe Mozelesky, I am a currently unemployed techie from the business software industry.
I have an idea for something that I think would both a) garner a lot of attention and b) really fill in a gap in getting Linux on the business desktop (oh, and c) offer a Linux counterpoint to one of Microsoft's new business strategies). I am working on a lot of documentation, marketing type stuff (the horror! :-)) and will hopefully open a project on Sourceforge and launch a website soon. I don't want to let the cat out of the bag too soon because I want there to be a clear roadmap. I don't want to 'spam' your list with lots of questions for which this list is not intended. I have some questions related to building a suite of applications on top of the Mono implementation of .NET, which would hopefully be cross-platform and run on Windows as well. These are not "how do I make xyz with C#" questions but more high level business and development strategy questions, questions about figuring out a licensing scheme that allows the software to be fully open-source but still offers some way for me to earn a living :-) (either getting the project rolled in to something at a company who will then employ me, or allowing me to derive other revenue somehow), and questions about what I need to be careful about if I start development soon using the .NET SDK on Win2k, and then wish to switchover to Mono once things are 100% ready (like Windows.Forms, etc.). I could also see this being something that a company like Ximian or RedHat would be very interested in. So if someone gives me the go-ahead, and this is the proper forum, I will summarize everything in a post, otherwise if you can point me to a better place to discuss my ideas and questions that would be most appreciated. There are so many other lists out there that I don't know where to begin, if someone could tell me what the say top 2 or 3 general ones are, I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Joe Mozelesky P.S. I don't know who it is that maintains the Ximian.org website but it is really sharp! I like it...a lot! _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
