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Mono and dotGnu: What's the Point?

Posted by michael on from the fighting-words dept.

joeykiller writes "The Register features an opinion by Neil Davidson, asking 'Mono and dotGnu: What's the point?' Some of the points he raises may seem irrelevant for open source supporters (like why make a C# compiler while Microsoft's is free anyway), but others are thought provoking and maybe a little bit controversial. You may not agree with his opinions, but it's an interesting read anyway."

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  1. Re:One reply by Pedrito · · Score: 2, Troll

    Miguel, muchas gracias para tu repuesta...

    I find this very enlightening. I had no idea that Mono was intended to be compatible with Mac OS X, and I find that VERY cool. As I posted earlier regarding my own open source project that uses .NET, I want to target as many platforms as possible, and Mono gives me this ability. And on top of it, I get to use C# and the .NET Framework. Despite the company that designed it, it's an excellent language and framework. As Miguel said, it boosts productivity. I have personally witnessed that.

    I haven't been following Mono as closely as I'd like because I haven't gotten to the porting yet, but I've been following some of the API development and frankly, I think they've done an excellent job of targetting the most important issues in order. Almost everything I need is already in Mono. Where it isn't there yet, I hope to either contribute code to Mono, or come up with workarounds.

    Open Source is more about choices than trying to put a company out of business. Since when was the open source motto "To write software that puts Microsoft out of business?" What sort of noble goal is that? Microsoft should succeed or fail on its own merits. I don't like them very much, and perhaps they're not succeeding on their own merits, but that doesn't mean that the motivation of OSS should be to make them fail.