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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. What were you expecting Miguel? by viraltus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fair play from Micro$oft towards the free open source movement? Stop playing with monkeys.

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  2. Re:So, Miguel by ink · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just because Microsoft is taking its dotNet patent ball and going home with it, doesn't mean that Mono is fundamentally flawed. Take the Mono bindings for dbus and Gnome-Do as an example. The code is very easy to understand and very powerful. Hopefully Mono will now be freed from having to track Microsoft's API hell, and it can truly blossom as an open-source software stack.

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  3. Re:Pwahahahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I disagree. Java was around prior to C# and .NET. There are a number of similarities, but both C# and .NET have evolved far beyond Java, at this point. The myth about simple cross-platform development in Java is just that, a myth. Anybody with cross-platform Java experience will attest to this. Java, as a language, has grown stagnant, while C# has continued to evolve.

  4. Re:The original SD Times article. by rtyhurst · · Score: 0, Troll

    I *speet* upon de Icaza and his vile prostitution to Microsoft!

    *hork*

    *ptoooooooie!*

  5. So leave MS. Mono is cooler than .Net, way cooler. by Qbertino · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mono is cool and Miguel should right away take the consequences of his late insight on to this issue and publicly announce that compliance with .Net is not Monos prime goal anymore. As far as I can tell there are more usefull tools and programms built with Mono than with .Not (Unity 3D comes to mind). He could walk away from all-out .Net compliance right now and MS would be the looser on this one.

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  6. Re:Not very persuasive... by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't bother. These idiots live in tightly controlled environments and don't know much about what goes on out in the real world.

    Durp, Windows?! Who uses that! IIS? Bah, who uses IIS amirite?!

  7. Re:.net success != financial success by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The way I see it, .net was yet another decent attempt at forcing Windows lock-in (and keeping already-locked-in partners happy and productive).

    Omg, you mean Microsoft developed a product which they they used to try to sell as a competitive advantage for their OS and thus make money?! Wow, this is some wild thinking you've got going, how ever did you figure that bit of brilliance out? Were you sitting under a tree when a flying chair hit you upside the head ala Newton?!