Sometime today, S. Krishnan wrote:
by Sam Kennedy - Mar 14th 2001 09:08:22
why?
Well, .NET should be supported. World domination doesn't happen by rebuilding things, but by taking them over. This is a way for Opensource to take over .NET!!
And lose it all when M$ pulls the rug out from under our feet?
Please elaborate on this point and enlighten us. The effort is not dependent on Microsoft in any such way that "M$ can pull the rug out". You're being paranoid.
C# is going to be more of a standard than Java. Microsoft has submitted the C# spec. to the ECMA for standardisation. It's better than Sun, at least at face value.
It would be nice to have C# programs run on Windows and Linux alike. Remember, Linux needs more end-user apps, that are likely to be developed using C# `for Windows' over the next 2-3 years. With a few modifications, they'll run on Linux. Ximian is developing stuff for GUI apps in C# (that will again run on Windows out of the box). What more do you want?
Microsoft has already offered a .Net implementation for Linux under their shared-source licence. Here these guys are rewriting everything so as to be totally independent (GPL).
Manish J.