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deanh77 Oct 28, 2004

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.

yay Oct 29, 2004

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 ...

deanh77 Oct 29, 2004

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...

yay Oct 29, 2004

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...

deanh77 Oct 29, 2004

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...

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haha that analogy was awesome

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