mono is def. cool tech, but if I programmed in it, I would shudder to think that microsoft might do something legally down the road, and then you'd be in trouble.

Ah well the interesting thing about MS new .NET venture is that I believe most of it is under ECMA or ISO, it's actually standarized, unlike previous MS endeavors or technologies. So project-mono ...

mm. have to politely disagree. If MS *wanted* .NET to run on everything (like Java), then they would have ported .NET to linux themselves, and distributed it as Sun distributes the JVM (which is cl...

i don't know it's a tough call i see it both ways windows lockin can occur either way MS does not make money from .NET framework, or compilers or languages. You can get C# for free, and a AS...

yeah, they give .NET away for free, understood, but only for Windows platforms. -You still need to buy Windows to use Microsoft .NET. They have not released Microsoft .NET runtime or developer too...

highly agree with that, MS wants to push CE and Win on every desktop possible, and that's highly understandable, they own the market then. but there is no fued, or rivarly really so far. these ...