What MS is doing with the .Net, is to insure its self against future loss of market share in desktop environment. The entire core of dotnet strategy is to move things away from the desktop / client and move the processing to the server. They expect all software in future to run on a browser. These software will run so long as the server hosting it is microsoft........The desktop client will no longer matter. They are not doing this for the benefit of Linux / Unix /. Mac, but as a hedge for their own future.
The move to port dotnet to linux platform is another version of the same hedging......in case linux becomes more popular on the server front, software designed on dotnet platform will run even if the server is running linux, and the desktops are windows. Believe me, they will finalise and complete the codes to production level only if linux becomes too popular at server level.......Otherwise, it will remain "experimental"
Regards Saswata
----- Original Message ----- From: "Amol Hatwar" rollacosta@phreaker.net To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Ignorance is bliss
At the same time many developers feel that .NET is a strategy to get *non-free* M$ code to run on GNU/Linux - and I think the same. Talk about ignorance!