01.30.08
Novell’s Mono Seen as Controversial
Our previous post talked about patents versus Free software and the following new article describes Mono as a case of “Embracing the .Beast” (.NET, which has patents). And yes, it’s all about Mono again. Mono is a Novell project that gets its tentacles around many other GNU/Linux distributions. With Silverlight out there, it might even be impossible to avoid (Mono-based Moonlight is the only workaround).
Mono allows programmers to program in Visual Basic on Linux and run their applications on Windows, or develop in C# on Windows and run their applications on Linux, but remains a controversial addition to the Linux developers’ arsenal.
We last wrote about the Mono problem just a couple of days ago. █
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- OpenSolaris, Gobuntu, and be careful who you kiss
- Miguel, Mono and Microsoft
- Red Hat Doesn’t Want Mono
- Who would use Mono now?
Credit: beranger.org
Victor Soliz said,
January 30, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I dunno about .beast could try .ent or .nt I dunno let’s tinker about this.