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De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the starting-with-the-name dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has shot the .NET ecosystem in the foot because of the constant threat of patent infringement that it has cast on the system, Novell vice-president and Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza is quoted as telling the website Software Development Times recently."

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  1. Not very persuasive... by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft has shot the .NET ecosystem in the foot

    A head shot would have been clearer. We all know .NET limps already.
    Or is this just the usual Microsoft wobbling instead of making an actual decision?

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    Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
    1. Re:Not very persuasive... by Joce640k · · Score: 5, Funny

      Microsoft hasn't shot/killed anything, they just stopped pulling the puppet strings and making the silly squeaky noises that made it look like it was alive in the first place.

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    2. Re:Not very persuasive... by dbIII · · Score: 4, Funny

      Does that mean "gimp" is going to be ported to ".NET"?

  2. Oh Noes! by hduff · · Score: 5, Funny

    The sky in Miguel de Icaza's world just turned blue!

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    "I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
  3. You need to engage with the frameworks by Viol8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm afraid your commitment to excellence has not synergised with market driven realities of the mission critical holistic buzzwordverse. Buck up your ideas sonny and buy into the knowledge base on a going forward basis or you'll soon suffer negative organic growth in your wetware core vocal services vis-a-vis next generation corporate employment opportunity scenarios!

  4. Re:Pwahahahaha by SQLGuru · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is cross platform (not necessarily cross OS). I've written code in C# that can run on my Windows Mobile phone or on my Windows laptop or as a Web Service or in my SQL Server database or in Silverlight or as a Web App or even on an XBox. That portability works well (as long as the libraries are supported -- see Compact Framework for example). It may not work as well on the Mac or Linux (but Mono does work), but porting code between the platforms I mentioned isn't that difficult (mostly just changing your target in Visual Studio; assuming library support existing on the targetted platform).