Fwd: Fwd: [ale] Miguel de Icaza and Mono?

[Carolinux.com]

I neglected to send this last post to the list. So sorry. 


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From: Carolinux.com <bobevans19 at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 11:32:05 -0400
Subject: Re: Fwd: [ale] Miguel de Icaza and Mono?
To: Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>

On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 08:22:59 -0400, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> Carolinux.com wrote:
> > On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 19:15:31 -0400, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> >
> > Gnome can run on either Linux or Windows. It thus directly competes
> > with $MS. Evolution (with the connector piece) can replace Microsoft
> > Outlook in an Exchange environment. Another direct competition with
> > $MS.
>
> I'd appreciate it if you could provide some pointers to the Windows
> Gnome source.  I can not find a reference to it on the gnome website.  I
> would have thought they would have mentioned a windows port because of
> the huge user base, but this is what it says on the gnome page:
>
> 'GNOME runs on a variety of platforms, including GNU/Linux (commonly
> called Linux), Solaris, HP-UX, BSD and Apple's Darwin.'
>
> I also was not aware that Evolution could do this as of yet.  This is
> good news for those folks who are stuck communicating to an exchange server.

http://cygnome2.sourceforge.net/


>
> My point here is that .NET is proprietary.  I don't doubt they will
> continue to support it.  Point is, what happens down the road when .NET
> and Mono are humming along fine and working so well together.  Then M$
> makes a proprietary change to .NET that causes problems with mono?
> They've done this before.
> 
How does this differ from JAVA?




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