On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:45:59PM -0700, Scott Paul Robertson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:48:04PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > Any bets on how long Mono remains in Fedora Core? > > >
> > 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] I just yanked mono from a Fedora Core 6 installation, with no dependencies I was unwilling to accept (beagle and tomboy, neither of which I use). So Gnome 2.16 does not appear to require Mono. Nor XFCE. Of course that does not address future versions of either. If nothing else, there's always good old TWM. > > 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. Microsoft couldn't care less about the technical merits of its languages, as evidenced by the ubiquity of BASIC in many of its apps, and by the fact that Microsoft C is in no danger of being accused of ANSI compliance nor Windows of POSIX compliance. So I doubt your arguments will carry much weight among Microsoft management. Microsoft is a big, fat, slow dinosaur. In the process of rolling over it may well squash some of its own eggs as well as a proto mammal or three that got too close. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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