Personally, I find this whole 'Linux on CLR' thing very disturbing.
What would happen, and, more importantly, how much leverage would MS suddenly have over Linux, if it all actually took off in a big way?
And its not like its anything particularly clever. Sure, C# is a nice enough language, but the real deal here is the platform/language neutral CLR - which has been done academically several times over.
Perhaps its like the KDE/GNOME thing. Perhaps the whole Linux scene has just been waiting for someone to 'spank' them into accepting a standard? Pretty ironic if it turned out to be MS though.
Dunno. Just very cynical about what the real importance of what's happening here.
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Personally, I find this whole 'Linux on CLR' thing very disturbing. What would happen, and, more importantly, how much leverage would MS suddenly have over Linux, if it all actually took off in a big way? And its not like its anything particularly clever. Sure, C# is a nice enough language, but the real deal here is the platform/language neutral CLR - which has been done academically several times over. Perhaps its like the KDE/GNOME thing. Perhaps the whole Linux scene has just been waiting for someone to 'spank' them into accepting a standard? Pretty ironic if it turned out to be MS though. Dunno. Just very cynical about what the real importance of what's happening here.