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.Net may be confined to the Microsoft stack but C# is not, thanks to Mono.
by icey 16y ago
.Net may be confined to the Microsoft stack but C# is not, thanks to Mono.
- rbanffy 16y agoMono is a patent minefield. Microsoft's covenant only covers what is under the ECMA standard and most of the interesting parts aren't.
- icey 16y agohttp://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/microsoft-issues-patent-promise-dispels-mono-concerns.ars http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/microsoft-issu... FUD can come from both sides of the argument, I guess.
- rbanffy 16y agoSo, nothing of Mono falls outside the ECMA 334 and 335 scope, right?
- tzs 16y agoYou are oversimplifying. See http://www.infoq.com/articles/java-dotnet-patents http://www.infoq.com/articles/java-dotnet-patents for more information.
- rbanffy 16y agoA bit. You can work around the patents you know. Still, Microsoft retains the power to sue if any implementation of anything outside the community promise violates whatever patents they have. One could expect Sun to be ethical. One can count on Microsoft doing the exact opposite.
- kjksf 16y agoThanks to Oracle Java is a minefield that Google stepped on and a bomb went off. .NET (potential of being sued) is better than the alternative (Java, where someone has actually been sued).
- rbanffy 16y agoI'll take my chances with Oracle. Oracle is in the business for money. Microsoft's in it for blood - because if they don't kill free and open-source software, they'll have no money.