Mono Beta 2 Released

A little birdy writes "Less than a month after Beta 1 was released, Mono Beta 2 has been released. See the Release Notes, or go directly to the download page. It includes a C# compiler, an implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure and two stacks of APIs: a Unix, Linux, GNOME, Mono stack for APIs that takes the most advantage of your Unix server and desktop and a set of APIs compatible with the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 that provides support for ASP.NET (web services and web forms), ADO.NET and many other components." And in a related story: darthcamaro writes "The drive to develop a FOSS implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework by DotGNU and Novell's Mono project is being painted as a contest between the Free and Open Source communities in an article on internetnews.com. The article details the running argument between DotGNU's Norbert Bollow and Mono's Miguel de Icaza on the issues of commercial involvement, software patents and all the 'religious' stuff that the Free software community holds against the open source community."

Comments

Sure

[Elektroschock]

Software patents ARE a real threat to Mono. FTC recently pushed for reform. It's now time for the USA to get rid of them. Patent attorneys will cry, but we know that its all crap.

Please help us in our EU campaign against software patents!

Miguel and Nat Friedmans are dangerous persons (low moral standards). They spread FUD about the KDE project and false news about their Novell role. Of course Suse 9.1 is shipped with KDE and not with Ximian Desktop. As easy as that. "Our customer rules".

Re:Sure

[Elektroschock]

I was angry about Miguel as they spread false news. I am used to unbiased information in the FOSS-World as far as not analysts are involved.

In my mind he is not trustworthy anymore.

Re:Real-world examples of tangible benefits

[Illissius]

Any plans for KDE integration, ie QT#? (whether by you, or an entirely seperate project)
IANAD (yet), but from what I've read (many times), it seems the greatest strength of both .NET/Mono and QT/KDE is that they're very easy/friendly/etc. to develop in (as opposed to GNOME/GTK, which I have not heard the same of), so they'd be a perfect match.
(Again, this is all just stuff I've heard, I have no experience with either.)