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Has already happened ;)Has already happened ;)Posted Jun 24, 2005 17:57 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332)In reply to: Has already happened ;) by pkolloch Parent article: Microsoft Puts Roadblock in Front of Open-Sourcing Avalon and Indigo (eWeek)
"... Instead they want to provide similar functionality in a library that runs in Mono and the original .Net environment. "
Couldn't they just wrap the existing Linux stacks, opening the door for other OSes in Open Source arena to establish a solid atandard?.
The idea is instead of providing the same functionality of Windoze to OSS/linux space, provide the "superior" functionality of OSS/Linux to *old* Windoze environments which could be achieved by wraping and shell replacing those environments like in colinux ( http://wiki.colinux.org/cgi-bin ) and or in bb4win ( http://www.bb4win.org/news.php )...
It seems to me that.NET environment was not really conceived to be cloned, the managebility features of C# were security oriented first, and programm easyng second, like a bait, a carrot at the tip of a poll hanging in front of your eyes. It was brilliant and has agglutinant power some how. But its modularity ensures that MS will always be a step ahead if they want too.
C# core is OK, but for one thing C# is not good for writing OSes and other close to hardware stuff, or even common server programms, even if there is a CLI CPU architecture, condemned to be "inferior", for sure, in the same sense that the JAVA CPU was.
I belive MS wanted all, not only the programms and programmers on their side(commercial and "freeware"), but also CPU architectures and IO expansion buses and protocols on their side also(hardware industry).
I belive they still want all, thought is evident that transforming X-box into a prevasive computational architecture will not do the bid, and CLI will not jump them on the CPU industry.
Pursuing MS path try to clone them will only prove to be a titanic adventure condemned to failure, but also promove fragmentation on OSS part, because the trend unfortunatly still is for everyone to go a separeted path.
Belive MS wil gain control of mono, or they will never allow it to copy enough to be a competitor. MS bid is that the Avalon/.NET will be a totally different environment than Win32/Windows. .NET modularity will provide easying up compatibility to kernel and to shell/GUI. I can see Novell enthusiasm , Avalon, Indigo on top of linux! on a pure WebServices architecture... but OSS dont really need that, because if it proves to be a not very good path, MS gets in trouble has it has been, but much smaller cloning contenders like Novell can implode!... it only needs that applications will run with a consistent look and feeling, thats all.
IMO the best path for cross pollination is to go with basic kernel cloning on top of a emulation engine like QEMU http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-tech.html
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