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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. Mono is no more of a threat than Wine is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unlike the UNIX braintrust, Microsoft makes sure their products are a moving target to prevent people from copying them.

    By the time Mono has finally reverse-engineered NET 1.1, Microsoft will be releasing NET 2.0. They'll keep adding to the APIs, they'll hook into Windows, leave parts undocumented, whatever it takes to ensure that nothing comes close. Mono will be stuck running trivial or toy programs.

    This is just like the Wine project -- for years people have been promising that you'll just be able to install Wine and fire up any Windows app. But there's always another and another and another API that Wine hasn't gotten around to yet.