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Mono-culture And The .NETwork Effect

Posted by timothy on from the who's-zoomin-who dept.

Sun Tzu writes "This article discusses the dangers posed by a very successful Mono project. Microsoft has several means at their disposal to effectively shut down Mono if it should ever gain critical mass. Unfortunately, Linux would be the big loser if that were to happen."

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  1. That will teach you, GNU hippies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stealing Microsoft innovation and borrowing on this corporation's achievements without asking. Microsoft paid money to their programmers while they wrote this wonderful API lib, so why should anyone get it for free?

  2. Re:Who's losing here? by superpulpsicle · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, there is ALOT of rich kids in that sandbox. You mind as well call it a beach.

  3. Move along, nothing to see here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't worry folks. Noone here should worry about mono. No chance it will ever affect you. Good Day (teabaggers).

  4. Re:Who's losing here? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    There's a lot of poop in that sandbox too. I call it a catbox.

  5. I am confused by endersdad · · Score: 2, Funny

    I everything produced by Microsoft was crap anyway. Why try and duplicate in on Linux?

  6. Dear idiots, by ronaldyang · · Score: 1, Funny

    Have any of you nerds tried programming in C#?

    It sucks.

    What the hell is Mono anyway?

    Who cares?

  7. I just have to say it... by BigJimSlade · · Score: 2, Funny

    The last few releases have really come a long way and I, for one, am looking forward to the day when I can use Mono on Windows as a complete replacement for the MS.Net binaries.

    I, for one, welcome our new (open- or closed-sourced) .NET overlords.

  8. Re:FUD rears its ugly head by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: 2, Funny

    thankyou, you're correct this slashdot story is essentially just a dumb troll, which regurgitates all the usual fud around mono. i have asked the editors to remove/amend the story, but unfortunately there is nothing they can do.

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