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.Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft
An anonymous reader writes "With Oracle suing Google over 'unofficial' support for Java in Android, Microsoft has come out and said it has no intention of taking action against the Mono implementation of C# on the Linux-based mobile OS. That's good news for Novell, which is in the final stages of preparing MonoDroid for release. Miguel de Icaza is not concerned about legal challenges by Microsoft over .Net implementations, and even recommends that Google switch from using Java. However, Microsoft's Community Promise has been criticized by the Free Software Foundation for not going far enough to protect open source implementations from patent litigation, which is at the heart of the Oracle-Google case."
Since when? Oh wait, you're intentionally misrepresenting the fact that they are discontinuing IronRuby with deprecating the entire platform. Nice FUD attempt, though, bro.
GNU SHALL NOT PASS.
I can't use a certain app to store file on an FTP server. The app's devs blame .Net. I believe them, as I can use FTP through a terminal to store files to that site.
I can't use another app that has embedded Google maps unless I manually turn off all the security in Internet Explorer first; now, this one may be a dev issue, if there's a way for .Net to use IE libraries with settings of its own instead of the settings for the browser, but so far they say there's no way for them to do that.