On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:48:04PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > Any bets on how long Mono remains in Fedora Core? >
I doubt it'll go anywhere. It's been under the same threat from Microsoft since it was put in. The only change is now Novell is paying out to ensure they don't get sued. Having casually followed Mono development for quite a while now, the threat of a lawsuit has been brought up by various devs a number of times. Many people cite that as the big concern for adopting Mono. The devs always rejected it with reasons (implemented in clean room, based on published public standard), and I think a lot of the community is agreeing with them. Didn't Mono get added as an core language for Gnome recently?[1] If Microsoft does bring down the ax, they'll end up killing Mono. No one (except Novell) will touch it. C# will become more like a "pay for use" language. One of my professors recently pointed out that all the "pay for use" languages never catch on or develop passionate follows. Think of the languages you know and use, how many have free implementations? If Microsoft kills Mono, I think they're going to seriously hurt C# as a language as far as adoption goes. Which is too bad, it's a well designed language. Scott [1] This is from memory, but basically that Mono apps can be part of the core Gnome suite and Mono is a requirement. -- Scott Paul Robertson http://spr.mahonri5.net GnuPG FingerPrint: 09ab 64b5 edc0 903e 93ce edb9 3bcc f8fb dc5d 7601
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