DotGNU and Mono Continue
saurik writes "After what has been a strange few weeks of converse between the DotGNU and Mono teams (including a small PR SNAFU that involved the banning of a member from the DotGNU mailing list), DotGNU has now announced that they will be forming a partnership with Portable.NET." Frankly I like that there are 2 efforts going on. Maybe one will succeed.
You really should take a look at SOAP's kissing cousin XML-RPC.
A bunch a primadonna uber-elite developers/hacks/etc who have the social skills of a six year old, unable to come to any sort of agreement.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK