Ximian to bring Mono to Mac OS X

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."

Comments

Re:Why are we associating Linux with MacOS?

[jeffy124]

can't recommend due to fundamental security issues

I'm sorry, but I gotta ask: What security issues? OS-X by default is possibly the most secure OS on the market that's suitable for the desktop. By default all the services (apache, sftp, ssh, appletalk, etc) are disabled, and cannot be enabled until after install. By comparison, Win2k has IIS enabled by default, without making it easy to disable it.

Getting updates is incredibly easy, as a tool pops up when you log on saying "there's an update available, would you like to install?" and it installs it for you.

It appears to me that you simply haven't used OS-X or have refused to find out any facts about it.

Re:Why are we associating Linux with MacOS?

[jeffy124]

item 2:

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%.

What the f*ck is all that!! You just threw a bunch of neat looking variables together and pulled 87.3 literally out of your ass in an attempt to say that an OS-X box has a high risk of intrusion. Show what numbers you use and your sources for them and maybe then someone will believe you.

Re:what happens if we just don't care?

[SteveX]

It's pretty simple. Users seem to like running Microsoft's software, and Microsoft has creating a whole new environment in which software will run.

It's not a big leap to imagine that in the future Microsoft will release software that users will want to use, that will run in the CLR.

If the CLR exists on the Macintosh, then Mac users can run it.

I'm not talking about Word or Excel here because those exist for the Mac today - but plenty of other apps (like Microsoft Money for example) exist only for Windows. It's not real likely Microsoft is going to develop any desktop applications in Java (the only real alternative when it comes to cross platform binaries) but it seems like a given they will for .NET.

So (down the road a bit) if you can run .NET software, you have a whole lot more software to choose from. Having more software available to Mac users will help Apple sell Mac's. That's why Apple should care (even if you personally don't).

- Steve

Re:Why are we associating Linux with MacOS?

[Sethb]

Win2k has IIS enabled by default, without making it easy to disable it.

Actually, here in the real world, only Win2K server has IIS installed by default, workstation does not, and it's pretty easy to turn it off, you just go to the Control Panel, go to Add/Remove Components, and remove IIS.