Mono Project Releases Beta 1

AArnott writes "Ximian has just released beta 1 of its open-source implementation of Microsoft .NET platform. Mono allows .NET applications to run on Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows. Mono 1.0 is slated for release on June 30, 2004." sjanes71 adds "The first 'beta' always gets heaps of attention, and this is the first of three planned for the Mono project. Some of the new features touted for this release that updates Mono v0.31 include a faster interpreter, a global assembly cache, support for the StrongARM and HPPA platforms, generics support in the VM and C# compiler and an early alpha of System.Windows.Forms. C# and .NET is Microsoft's answer to Sun Microsystem's Java platform and Project Mono aims to create the Open Source, cross-platform version of Microsoft's new development environment."

Comments

Sure, it's here now...

[Noryungi]

But wait until 'Longhorn' comes out, and watch those Microsoft legal storm troopers pound poor little Mono into the ground. Or the 'compatibility' of Mono hit a brick wall faster than you can say 'General Public License'. Or both. Probably both, as a matter of fact.

Think I am joking? There was an article on /. the other day on the Longhorn patents that Microsoft is very busily filing... Something like 5 or 6 per day. Of course, right now, they are playing nice with Mono... But make no mistake: .NET and C# are Microsoft properties, and they are not very well known for letting others use their little toys.

Ask the Samba team how much support they got from Microsoft. Zero. Zilch. Zip. Nada. At one point, with every new Windows release, Microsoft was actually actively introducing incompatibilities with Samba. And Longhorn is supposed to be end of Samba.

What makes you think they will play fair with Mono? Nothing. Once .NET has filled its purpose -- which, let us be honest, is to destroy Java -- it will either get dumped like a hot potato or it will become another patent-protected, 'sign on the dotted line with your blood and give us your firstborn child', closed source heap of MS trash.

These are my 0.02 US$, but I'd really like people to tell me why Mono is such a great thing...

How long will this be allowed to exist?

[nurb432]

Seriously, with the way things are going in the DMCA world, and with Microsoft patenting everything that isn't moving, how long before Microsoft comes out and stops this?

Since they own the rights to the underlying standard, ( if i remember right, it was patented early on, not just copyrighted ) they can reach out and slap Mono down..

Currently its in their best interest to let the project continue, to get more programmers on board to corrupt more people, and OSS projects.

But how much longer i wonder.