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The Mono Mystery That Wasn't

Posted by Soulskill on from the context-is-everything dept.

jammag writes "It was shocking news, or so it seemed: Miguel de Icaza, the Mono creator, was switching his opinion about his life's work — he now seemed to agree with the free software partisans who oppose his Mono work and his Microsoft connections. The story flamed across the Internet and even got picked up on Slashdot. But Bruce Byfield reports that 'De Icaza has not changed his opinions.' De Icaza calls the rumors 'a storm in a teacup.' Tracing the misinformation trail, Byfield concludes that 'the FOSS community excels at communication. However, in this instance, that ability was used irresponsibly.'"

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  1. Re:Inflamatory headling superceeds mundane content by miguel · · Score: 5, Informative

    We have announced that our upcoming Mono release (2.8) will default to 4.0:

    http://www.mono-project.com/Roadmap

    For the first time in Mono's history our C# compiler and its supporting engine and core libraries were done before Microsoft released the product, we were usually one to two years behind. This time we are some five months ahead of time:

    http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Dec-09.html

    There are still a handful of loose ends here and there, but luckily, nothing major.