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Mono 2.0 and .NET On Linux
Several readers noted the release of Mono 2.0, which is compatible with Microsoft's .NET Framework 2.0. According to Miguel de Icaza, "... users can move over server applications built for .NET and client applications built with Windows Forms." InternetNews points out that only about half of the .NET apps out there will work on Mono 2.0, for a variety of reasons including (but not limited to) legacy Windows-only libraries and Microsoft's progress on .NET 3.0 and 3.5 APIs.
I am a fan of Free Software and the *freedom* I get from using it.
If you look at Java vs .NET in a Linux world, against a Free Software background, I think it quickly becomes obvious which one comes closer to sharing the Free Software ideals/benefits/mindset and which one doesn't. Mono may be a free implementation, but the platform they are emulating is as proprietary as ever.
Before I tear apart what you think passes for an argument,
Ad hominem
let me say that the Mono folks are doing an amazing job and they get way too little credit.
Irrelevant - I did not begrudge them their due.
The tinfoil hat brigade around here seems to have taken on Mono as its personal whipping boy, and it's totally unfair and uncalled for.
Sure, but weren't you supposed to be talking about Mono there somewhere? Java used to provide lock-in, too. Hence, the GNU Classpath project, which is pretty much identical in its goals to Mono. Funny that I never saw you people screaming about that one being a trap.
Then you have a short memory.
Wow, get some perspective there. How many killer apps are there on Linux that the Windows people are craving? KDE? Gnome? Firefox? OpenOffice? None of those are on .NET and most of them run on Windows, anyway. Do you think that Firefox, OOo and KDE are all helping people move away from Linux by providing Windows ports? Isn't it more likely that without those Windows ports, most of these projects would go nowhere?
Strawman, I never claimed anything like that, the majority of applications are in-house development efforts, and there are more portable and less legally dangerous alternatives to .NET
It's really quite obvious to anyone with any actual knowledge of how the industry works that people are going to write applications without Linux in mind. The Mono project, just like the Wine project, lets people who run Linux run applications that other people wrote for Windows.
Wine does, certainly.
As it turns out, there's also a bunch of useful libraries that Mono includes that you can use when coding for platforms other than Windows. It boggles my mind that anyone would think that this is somehow a trap.
I believe it is because your experience of the industry might just be limited to software for the masses, and not the majority of software written.
It's just a useful way to access Unixy things on Mono. But it clearly can't be breaking Linux lock-in or whatever pea-brained scheme you've come up with.
Irrelevant, Ad hominem and a strawman. Well Done!!!
.NET has been around for 7-8 years now. Do you honestly think code can't become legacy in that amount of time? Here's a tip: if you think Linux has any lock-in potential for applications written on it, then perhaps you shouldn't talk too much about intellectual integrity.
I leave the above in purely to demonstrate your lack of an argument.
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
Do you want Vista? I don't. .NET makes everything bloated to an insane degree.
Some Gnome guys try to push a piece of crock named "Tomboy notes". If you try it, it will take more memory than the whole rest of Gnome together. And Gnome, well, isn't quite the paragon of being bloat-free.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Reminds me of OO.org and MS Office. Or even the Linux desktop GUI and Windows.
I forgot there's a hell lot in MS .NET that's not in ECMA .NET. I forgot more than 99% of the .NET developers read the MS. NET documentation rather than the ECMA .NET documentation or the Mono documentation. I forgot lot of foolish but vocal people consider the compatibility between Mono and MS .NET as a measure of .NET's cros-platformity while they should actually consider the incompatibility between dotgnu and MS .NET as a measure of the lock-in involved.
The largest prime factor of my UID is 263267.
And anyone who has experience of both IE and Firefox will tell you that IE is better thought out, has a more consistant design, has cleaner easier to use interface, scales better, performs better and is altogether a much nicer environment to surf in.