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New Mono Roadmap, DotGNU 0.1 On CD

Posted by timothy on from the co-option-option dept.

msh104 writes "The Mono project just released a nice status update for Mono. They also preview a roadmap for what the future will be like. It's quite nice to read if you want to find out if writing .Net programs for Linux will have a future for you. The Mono roadmap is available here." And gibbon writes "The DotGNU Project announced the availability of the DotGNU 0.1 CD-ROM release. It runs on many platforms and the CD contains documentation, packages for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and MS Windows. It is now possible to use the base class libraries and XML. System.Windows.Forms and the web services are coming along well, too. The announcement contains more information and download links."

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  1. 'Splain it to me, Lucy... by TheWanderingHermit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm asking this half sarcastically and half seriously.

    Could someone please explain to me: Isn't Mono basically an open source .NET and why would we expect Micro$oft to NOT shut Mono down cold if it goes anywhere so it becomes a threat to them?

  2. Mono VS DotGNU from a commercial sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    For that you'll have to go waaaay back to the origin of the problem. Mono has a proprietary commercial plan ie Proprietary Mono Sales. I'm not saying that it's bad , but for a GNU project to turn a blind eye to that happening to its code.

    For this purpose Ximian insisted thateveryone either contribute with an X11 license or GPL under (C) Ximian.com. Which is not wholly acceptable to FSF (who sponsors DotGNU).....

    It isn't like it's a Gnome-KDE war. Portable.net has re-licensed their I18N (ie those damed CJK decoder/encoders) for use for Mono by relicensing it to X11 (to suit Miguel's "sell" aims). Portable.net has also taken some off mono, the most prominent of it will be ml-pnet , which will allow people to use Mono Libs (eg ADO.net) with Pnet. Unfortunately very few of those initiatives come from Mono end of things, maybe they don't want to attract attention to competition.

    The real breaking point is the WinForms fiasco. DotGNU and Mono had formally agreed to co-operate on Winforms and Ximian officially pulled the carpet from under their Winforms project. Also what they had was a VM that ran under Wine and used MFC like it would on Win32 . Of course they were focussing mainly on Gtk# and Winforms would have affected the marketability of that. But would they do something like that ? . Failed promises and the Novell acquisition have reduced trust as now it's not one freesoftware developer to another but one corporation to a free software developer. Of course no-one wants another SCO-like copyright war.

    ps: Visit this link -- Qt and Gtk windows running under the same parent window (DotGNU'll solve the Qt-Gnome widget war ;-)