Giving up on what? Make yourself clear. You seem to be spreading FUD.
...giving in to Microsoft vendor lock-in.
The fact that you can now develop and run your.Net programs on Linux distributions using Mono, is getting freedom from vendor lock-in! I am a.Net developer who prefers Linux over Windows. So great! I need not buy Windows just to develop on my favorite platform. Windows is a MS product..Net is a technology..Net is nice and thanks to MS and Mono it is cross-platform.
It seems ISRO is going to send a rover next to the moon in 2012 on the Chandrayaan-II probe.
IMHO, ISRO should conduct something like the Lunar X-Prize, where independent groups can build their own rovers loaded with instruments.
Not that ISRO lacks the required expertise ('course) but such a competition would generate considerable interest among students in the whole nation and rope in more participation from Indian Universities.
USA's DARPA Grand Challenge is an excellent example.
I really hope the aims for Chandrayaan-II are very high, so that the Indian tech industry will have to work very hard to accomplish them all. Besides one doesn't send a rover to another celestial body quite often. So this rover should be really high tech!:-)
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Accepting Mono is giving up
Giving up on what? Make yourself clear. You seem to be spreading FUD.
...giving in to Microsoft vendor lock-in.
The fact that you can now develop and run your .Net programs on Linux distributions using Mono, is getting freedom from vendor lock-in! I am a .Net developer who prefers Linux over Windows. So great! I need not buy Windows just to develop on my favorite platform. Windows is a MS product. .Net is a technology. .Net is nice and thanks to MS and Mono it is cross-platform.
It seems ISRO is going to send a rover next to the moon in 2012 on the Chandrayaan-II probe.
:-)
IMHO, ISRO should conduct something like the Lunar X-Prize, where independent groups can build their own rovers loaded with instruments.
Not that ISRO lacks the required expertise ('course) but such a competition would generate considerable interest among students in the whole nation and rope in more participation from Indian Universities. USA's DARPA Grand Challenge is an excellent example.
I really hope the aims for Chandrayaan-II are very high, so that the Indian tech industry will have to work very hard to accomplish them all. Besides one doesn't send a rover to another celestial body quite often. So this rover should be really high tech!
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