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Ximian to bring Mono to Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the think-similarly dept.

nunogawa writes "According to Think Secret, Miguel de Icaza said Ximian will probably be subcontracted to bring Mono (.NET support) to Mac OS X. The article mentions that de Icaza never mentions what company would hire Ximian to do this and surmises that Apple would be the likely candidate. On the other hand, I think Microsoft is another reasonable possibility."

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  1. Why are we associating Linux with MacOS? by PhysicsGenius · · Score: 0, Funny
    I like OSX. Pretty colors, funny sounds and perky design brightens up my day and is well worth the extra cost. However, I simply can't recommend its use due to fundamental security issues.

    Let's take a purely mathematical approach. Entropy S = k ln W where W is the mulitplicity of the configuration: W = N!/nl!nr!. Now, if we let N be the number of OSX machines in existence with nl = number that have been cracked and nr the number that haven't been (yet!), we can plug in some numbers and find that the likelihood of break-in is roughly 87.3%.

    YMMV, obviously, but even in the case of simple home usage I don't like to risk my data to such an insecure OS. That's why I stick to Windows95 which, despite what some MS-bashers like to say, hasn't had a single break-in attributable to design error ever.

  2. I will spell this out in clear fucking terms by Profane+Motherfucker · · Score: 2, Funny

    de Icaza wants to make fucking money -- dinero, l'argent liquide, cash. Whatever the fuck you want to call it. He's a businessman. And like clever businessmen who wish to remain clever businessman, the fucking guy will do fucking any fucking thing to make some money. If that means he sells his fucking shit to Apple, great. If he fucking sells his shit to some motherfucker at MS, great.

    But in terms of the fucklings on slashdot, he is fucking satan (note, _fucking_ as a verb, not adj here) if he sell it to MS. And he is fucking God (note, again, a fucking verb, not adj) if he sells his shit to Apple. I don't fucking get it. Just let this motherfucker do his fucking business without being fucking demonized in the piss and moan linux press.