Comments on: Mono is Not a GNU/Linux Project and It Keeps Feeding Those Who Bite the GNU/Linux Hand http://techrights.org/2010/10/13/targeting-mac-os-x-developers/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: TemporalBeing http://techrights.org/2010/10/13/targeting-mac-os-x-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-102134 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:27:54 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=40551#comment-102134 Personally, when this all started – before .NET was the ticking time bomb it is, I preferred GNU’s dotGNU project over Mono from all that was available – they seemed to be going down the right path. Sadly, Mono got the support of key non-free parts – but that’s likely due to how involved M$ is with it.

Unlike Mono, dotGNU went as far as providing builds to replace .NET on Windows too.

That said, I will never touch C# now. It started off kinda okay, until Microsoft started trying to change the C++ standards with it (which fortunately got rejected), and have turned it into the turd it is.

Whether .NET or Mono, it was never about liberation from Microsoft or Microsoft APIs, but spreading them. That was one aspect dotGNU had – they were more aiming to liberate the APIs from Microsoft, not co-exist with the a partner that only kills its partners.

http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/

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