Comments on: Simon Phipps on “Monomaniacs”, More Reactions to Jeremy Allison’s Mono Prognosis http://techrights.org/2009/10/16/monomaniac-enlightenment-and-failures/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2009/10/16/monomaniac-enlightenment-and-failures/comment-page-1/#comment-74296 Needs Sunlight Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:35:00 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=20104#comment-74296 I'd never heard of anyone having the gall to try to compare Samba and Mono before, not even the "monomaniacs". Samba solves an interoperability problem. It occupies a niche different from other network file systems (also it does many other things). It fits nicely in a migration strategy away from proprietary technology, especially in the infrastructure. Mono appears to implement Microsoft technology for no other reason than it is from Microsoft. It competes, through poor imitation, with Java. It fits in no strategy except deeper dependency on M$ products. I’d never heard of anyone having the gall to try to compare Samba and Mono before, not even the “monomaniacs”.

Samba solves an interoperability problem. It occupies a niche different from other network file systems (also it does many other things). It fits nicely in a migration strategy away from proprietary technology, especially in the infrastructure.

Mono appears to implement Microsoft technology for no other reason than it is from Microsoft. It competes, through poor imitation, with Java. It fits in no strategy except deeper dependency on M$ products.

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