On 11/13/06, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is indeed great news and makes RedHat very very happy, as they have started to embrace Java, with the GNU gcj and classpath system. I also note that RedHat's lawyers are still okay with them distributing Mono in Fedora Core (only a few gnome apps are C#, and they aren't core), as they believe that MS's patents largely do not cover the parts of the EMCA standard that gnome apps use (IE they don't use ASP.net, etc).
I wonder if Sun will cozy up with Red Hat. They have directly competing products: Linux (GPL) and Solaris (CDDL), JBoss (GPL) and Glassfish (CDDL), etc. But if Sun decides they are a hardware company again, they may want to strengthen ties with Red Hat to augment their own offerings. Giving customers more choice. I don't know. If they were at odds with Red Hat (and Novell) it seems like they would have avoided releasing Java as GPL. This is a big win for Red Hat. There are a lot of innovators there (and at Novell, Oracle, etc), who will likely take Java and make it even better. Seems like a win-win for everyone involved. It's a shame that there is legal concern around mono's Microsoft compatible stack. I saw the release notes about Mono 2.0 -- pretty sweet. WinForm support seems like a "killer app". How sweet would that be to have nearly every WinForms app developed for Windows runnable on Linux. That would be huge. Sadly there is the legal concern that MS will sue you blind if you do so. Hopefully, someone will make a WinForms compatible API for Java (something that would wrap Swing or SWT or both). Maybe I'll do that :-). -Bryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
