All GPLed Code Removed From MonoDevelop

rysiek writes "A few days ago, Miguel de Icaza wrote on his blog that the whole of MonoDevelop is now 'free' of GPL-licensed code. 'MonoDevelop code is now LGPLv2 and MIT X11 licensed. We have removed all of the GPL code, allowing addins to use Apache, MS-PL code as well as allowing proprietary add-ins to be used with MonoDevelop (like RemObject's Oxygene).'"

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Re:Does anyone really use it?

[binarylarry]

Java has a much fancier and faster runtime, has better tools, has a massive choice of 3rd party libraries for *anything*, runs on more systems and hardware, has much more support across companies in the computing technology industry and it's open source. .NET has a really nice IDE in Visual Studio (almost as good as Eclipse) but it's Windows only. It also has C# which has some nice features, but unfortunately is like Java with a giant spoiler and neon lights attached to it.

Mono is a shitty knock off of .NET. It's not really compatible in the vast majority of cases, it's basically "Managed Wine." I think Mono has it's purposes, if you really need to get a .NET app working on Linux by any means, but like Wine it's really the last resort if you have no other choice.