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

[Geoffrey]

Carolinux.com wrote:
> I neglected to send this last post to the list. So sorry. 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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/

As I noted to you in private email, this is gnome on top of cygnome, not 
exactly the same thing.

>>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?

It doesn't, but I'd trust Sun a whole lot more then Microsoft.  Not that 
I trust Sun, but let's look at history shall we?  Microsoft is well 
known for 'embrace and extend,' which is similar to what we are talking 
about.  The only difference is, they have a technology that's being 
implemented in open source.  All they have to do is tweek .NET a bit and 
it will break mono apps.

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Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995