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"You would think that Microsoft would welcome Mono."

What in MS's past behaviour would suggest that?

MS destroyed the fledgeling standards based browser
market because of the technologies promise of cross-
platform applications deployment.

MS deliberately made their version of Java incompatible
with the Java standard to prevent true cross-platform
application deployment.

MS has acknowledged their monopoly depends on their
proprietary API and the barriers this creates for
competition. First it was Win32, next will be .NET (and the
rest of the "security" for Longhorn).

Mono provides two stacks, a .NET clone and its own (which
is used in Novell's GTK+ development). MS will move to kill
the clone with its pathetic IP stash whenever mono on *nix
becomes a threat.
Posted by: Richard Flude   Posted on: 06/30/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Microsoft Spokehole says...  Dave P. | 06/30/04
It doesn't make sense  rapson | 06/30/04
It does if you understand the greedy arrogant 12 year old M$ mindset!  Jeff Spicoli | 06/30/04
Adjective overload  rapson | 06/30/04
Ha  Jeff Spicoli | 06/30/04
Look to history for the answers  Richard Flude | 06/30/04
Time to look forward  seosamh_z | 06/30/04
what MS should do vs what MS does do...  ryusen | 06/30/04
If you tihink Mono is the entire .NET framework I have a bridge I'd like  marksashton | 06/30/04
Mono, like open source in general, is a lowest common denominator approach  marksashton | 06/30/04
There's no reason why YOU would...  Michael Kelly | 06/30/04
Java  rapson | 06/30/04
Different strokes for different folks  seosamh_z | 06/30/04
Maybe you did NOT read, Novel will use this for their own apps.  DonnieBoy | 06/30/04
Yes but...  seosamh_z | 06/30/04
I don't fully agree  IT_User | 06/30/04
This is a problem for Microsoft. You can deploy .NET apps on Linux  DonnieBoy | 06/30/04
Do you think...  rapson | 06/30/04
Confused?  Richard Flude | 06/30/04
Mono, not .NET  rapson | 06/30/04
.NET is a huge part of the appeal of mono  Richard Flude | 06/30/04
Unfortunately, you couldn't be more wrong.  gath | 07/01/04
How could this happen?  IT_User | 07/01/04
it's possible...  ryusen | 07/01/04
Unfortunately, you couldn't be more wrong.  gath | 07/01/04

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