Comments on: Bill Gates on C# as “Key Element in Preventing Commodization by Linux”

By: Omar Abdul-Hafez

Omar Abdul-Hafez — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:11:52 +0000

That’s why it’s called: “Monopolistic Competition.”

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:12:44 +0000

@eet: find another site to troll.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:11:41 +0000

Yes, I was reminded of it this morning as I went through hundreds of Comes exhibits, including Java one.

By: photo retouching

photo retouching — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:58:04 +0000

Instead of revelling in the fact that there is competition, these big wealthy corporations seek to destroy and dominate. Basically the consumer is left with little choice!

By: eet

eet — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:24:12 +0000

…and they are certainly Illuminati!

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:21:14 +0000

@lalala : that’s because there are three kinds of people who use M$ products: those who know nothing about computers, those who care nothing about computers and those who exploit the first two groups. The middle group is going to be quiet for obvious reasons, the first group is less likely to speak up. So it is no suprise that it is almost exclusively that third group that is spewing pro-mono tripe.

Mono is trying to get in on Java and GUIs with Qt/Jambi or Swing:
http://doc.trolltech.com/qtjambi-4.4/html/com/trolltech/qt/qtjambi-index.html
http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/

However, as some recent projects like Gnote show us, sometimes it is best to use C++:
http://doc.trolltech.com/qtjambi-4.4/html/com/trolltech/qt/

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:15:11 +0000

@Roy: That main desktop guy at Canonical who came from Microsoft, is that Jo Shields or a second problem?

Regarding decommoditization, the M$ strategy is outlined rather clearly in the “Halloween” documents. It’s not so much that the M$ products are designed with the destruction of GNU/Linux in mind, that is more a side effect of the goal of destroying all non-M$ competition.

By: eet

eet — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:24:24 +0000

twitter, stop trolling this place!

By: twitter

twitter — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:30:58 +0000

In the context of the above court documents, it seems that there are only two kinds of mono proponents. Those who work for M$ and know it and those who don’t know it. As the SLOG puts it, every line of code written to a M$ “standard” is a M$ victory. C# was designed with the destruction of GNU/Linux in mind.

By: lalala

lalala — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:13:14 +0000

Only some? Every time that someone says something even remotely positive about mono, you label them a paid MS shill. So which is it? Some of Mono’s advancers are former, current, or wannabe MS employees, or all of them?

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:41:35 +0000

Some of Mono’s advancers are former (e.g. Nat), current, or wannabe (e.g. Miguel) Microsoft employees, including the main desktop guy at Canonical, who came from Microsoft.

By: max stirner

max stirner — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:25:24 +0000

“We have to spend a lot of money to make sure the openness of C# is well understood”

this was 8 years ago.. that would explain the crazy amount of mono shilling we’re seing now, with the first linux desktops on the market etc.