Mono Comes To Android

hairyfeet writes "After releasing Monotouch for iPhone which allows c# development on iOS, Novell has announced the availability of Mono for Android. Will this give us the 'one language to rule them all' that Java failed to bring, or will the bad blood between the F/OSS groups and Microsoft make this a dead end?"

Comments

Re:Neither

[hairyfeet]

Uhhh...FUD much? Why didn't you just scream "DRM kills kittehs!" and "information wants to be free, like a bird!" while you're at it? Netflix movies are rentals and they have to have at least some token something or there would be instant copy software released an then bye bye Netflix. You also have NO choice on broadcast, and it comes with commercials, a whole shitload of them, and it is also cut. You don't get those things with Netflix.

BTW, the reason Netflix don't (and never will) work on Linux? it requires a proprietary kernel driver and no way Linus will allow that. It works in OSX, iOS, and Windows because they have support for Janus DRM (the same one that has been around for years with no major hacks) which hooks into the kernel thus making it damned near impossible to hack without turning the data to garbage.

I've set up several Netflix accounts for clients on their new HTPCs and the service is just wonderful IMHO. When paired with Windows 7 WMC and all the free Internet channels it makes a "one stop shop" for just about anything you want to see. Of course you are free to choose not to buy it or watch movies, that's YOUR choice but I WANT to watch movies then I should be able to choose whether or not to take DRM, yes? Hell I find Netflix less irritating than the new DVDs where you can't pass the BS in front.

As for TFA, I guess I should have made it more clear what I was going for. With Mono on Android you can now run C# on Android, iPhone (MonoTouch), WinPhone (.NET) and on the desktop you can work in Windows (.NET) or OSX or Linux (Mono) so with C# you can pretty much cover ALL the bases. Does this have a chance of taking the "write once, run everywhere" idea of Java and making it work? Or will the bad blood between F/OSS advocates (who still scream "its a trap!" even though its been eleven years now and the patents still haven't shown up) keep it from being used?

Who knows? I've seen people that love and those that hate C#, and a whole bunch of the "its a trap!" FUD as well. I figured with so many coders and mobile developers here at /. they might like to know there is another tool in the toolbox so to speak. Whether you choose to use it or not is up to you.