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Dotgnu Coding Competition

Posted by michael on from the code-warrior dept.

Honestly writes "Apparently DotGNU seems to be offering more than the 'warm fuzzy feeling' to its contributors. Somebody has funded about $4500 worth of prizes for code contributions. The developers have confirmed that the $$$ is in FSF Hands (good hands, I suppose). Here is the split up of prizes. It's almost strange to earn money writing open source. Especially when you're not even employed by dotgnu. Anyway all I can say is ,I like it. It's ideal for a grad student with lots of free time. But hardly anyone seems to have seen the Newsforge posts (except maybe me)."

2 of 132 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What about Mono by Plix · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Mono FAQ has a section devoted to it.

  2. PNET vs Mono by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Basically Mono's FAQ trashes DotGNU and Mono at every chance. Miguel and the Mono crew has had a smear campaign against DotGNU since day one.

    DotGNU in the past has tried to cooperate and initiated talks in sharing resources, but this didn't go well with Mono.

    The true difference between Portable.NET and Mono is Portable.NET has chosen different technical decisions.

    #1: The compiler is written in C/C++ not C# itself, so it doesn't have the chicken or the egg problem. Mono's CVS is very difficult to get a handle of because of this. PNET's compiler is about 3x as fast as Mono's.

    #2: The topic at hand, winforms.. PNET's winforms only dependancy is X, which means their winforms work on handhelds, osx, etc. Very portable. Mono's requires Wine, not very portable to say the least.

    Thats a rough quick sum.