Early in the day we wrote about Novell's and the Linux Foundation's cold attitude towards Free software. Based on the latest from the Linux Foundation, Ron Hovsepian and Jim Zemlin will be be doing another public chat where the deal with Microsoft is unlikely to be brought up and betrayal of the developers even discussed [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
The free, invitation-only event will feature an address by Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian and a question-and-answer session with Zemlin.
-- An address from Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian, which will include a Q&A with the Linux Foundation's executive director Jim Zemlin.
In addition to .NET, there are other implementations of CIL—the two most well known by Microsoft and Novell. Microsoft's implementation is an open source offering for the purposes of research and education called the Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure (SSCLI). The Novell offering is called Mono, which is also open source.
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