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Race to Linux Project Announced
An anonymous reader writes "According to Internetnews.com The Race to Linux project was announced Wednesday at the recent Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. The challenge: port an existing ASP.NET application to Linux using any cross-platform tool of choice, including Mono, Grasshopper and PHP. (Mainsoft offers tools that let Visual Studio users build applications that run natively in the Unix, J2EE and Linux environments.) Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft stated: 'Linux is too big and ubiquitous to ignore.'"
Was Microsoft's "Race to Linux" project?
I first thought of porting "Hello World!" to linux.
.net version is 17mb compressed and covers numerous files and resource images.
Then I realised that the
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echo "Hello World!\n";
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I've recently completed a port of HJ-Split to Linux.
So far, I've only completed a command line interface which I've called 'split' and 'cat'.
It should be available on most distros. Let me know what you guys think!
So does Anonymous Coward have good karma?
Funny, I thought that the idea of companies was to make money.
Supporting your major applications on a minority platform where a large number of the users have an irrational hatred of your company anyway?
Why the absurd claim that by not supporting every single minority OS out there, MS are not a real software company? That's like claiming that dogs aren't animals because they don't wqear contact lenses - the two ideas are completely different.
Looking at it the other way, code should never be GPL'd. A real developer wouldn't care about the license the user of the code wants to use.. Who cares about the license the customer choses, you should support it regardless.
Of course, with the OSS community being a 1 trick pony, I wouldn't expect anything else.
No, MainSoft is not a typo for Microsoft; MainSoft is an independent software company that makes a tool that allows for cross-platform development.
During the PDC, which was organized by Microsoft, one of the exhibitors (mainsoft) announced this contest which was intended to show off their products.
This is not an attempt by Microsoft to do any kind of cross-platform development.
To the best of my knowledge, neither of the groups organizing the event (MainSoft and CodeProject) are owned in whole, or in part, by Microsoft.
If you read the disclaimer on CodeProject, you will find the following groups barred from the contest:
Microsoft Employees are not on this list. I really don't think that Microsoft has a great deal to do with this event.