On TechRepublic: Five super-secret features in Windows 7
BNET Business Network:
BNET
TechRepublic
ZDNet
TalkBack 19 of 25:
Next »
« Previous
Confused?
"that with the lack of licensing fees (ala Java) and the lack of
strict Microsoft oversight (ala Sun), that Mono could
become a better Java than Java?"

Are you talking the language or the frameworks. Whilst c#
language is a standard, it is nothing without the rest of the
.NET frameworks.

.NET is neither available without license fees or without
strict MS oversight (actually 100%).

You can package your own Java libraries (eg IBM's SWT)
without Sun's permission, just that it won't become part of
the JSE standard approved by the Java Community Process
(JCP). This is all mono is doing, two frameworks a .NET
clone and a GTK+ framework for developing GNOME apps.

So Java is currently way more open than .NET (via JCP).
However, many would prefer a GPL version of a JSE
implementation to encourage inclusion in GNU/Linux
distributions. This is what IBM an others are asking for.
Posted by: Richard Flude   Posted on: 06/30/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
Reply to Story Reply to Message

Alert moderator to an offensive message

Subscribe to this discussion via Email or RSS

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

What do you think?

SponsoredWhite Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads