Mono added to Fedora Core [LWN.net]

Mono added to Fedora Core

Posted Jan 10, 2006 15:32 UTC (Tue) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
Parent article: Mono added to Fedora Core

There's no point in self-censoring your Linux distribution in an attempt to avoid imagined future patent problems. Every software package in your Linux distribution is potentially infringing under some patent or other. Learn to live with it.

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Mono added to Fedora Core

Posted Jan 10, 2006 20:20 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

If your market capitalization is over $5 billion US, and you infringe a patent that is being actively enforced (e.g. the MP3 patents), you might be hearing from lawyers eager for a bit of that pot of gold.

That said, Mono's probably safe at this time, since at this stage it's in Microsoft's interest to have .NET penetrate everywhere. I assume that Red Hat has made this calculation and feels safe.

Mono added to Fedora Core

Posted Jan 10, 2006 20:42 UTC (Tue) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link]

added to which, its clear microsoft finally understands that services (search ads, music downloads, online gaming, software-on-demand) are where their future revenue growth will be coming from, not from software sales. note i said revenue -growth-; of course they will still make money on software, but these markets are flat. arguably microsoft isn't even monetizing .net themselves; to users it is transparent in their code and it is no-charge to developers. they likely see mono as useful for destabilizing java, which it appears to be doing in some very small way. mono doesn't constitute a threat to microsoft, given the small benefit it extends by virtue of spreading c# to more developers as a c++ replacement (a role in which c# appears to be having some success).

Mono added to Fedora Core

Posted Mar 29, 2006 13:49 UTC (Wed) by tim146 (guest, #36823) [Link]

>> spreading c# to more developers as a c++ replacement (a role in which c# appears to be having some success).

I read an article the other day that C# was going to lead to the death of C and C++. What are you going to write all that kernel code in then, VB6? Please when are guys like you going to realise that a tool / language / environment is used because it is suitable to the job at hand, not because its the "latest must have technology". Its that kind of attitude that means we all have to upgrade our PC's every six months because some clowns think we have unlimited money and time to do so. Don't tell me, your also just about or have invested in HD TV as well? Has anyone ever questioned, ten years down the line, with 3-4Ghz processors and acres of memory and disk space, why is it that Word 2003 still appears to run at the same speed that Word 97 did on a 66Mhz 486 with 128M of RAM? Get a grip on reality, please! .NET is a good tool, but has its fair share of flaws and faults and is not the answer to all development problems.