The Penguin Takes Flight (Business 2.0) [LWN.net]

Business 2.0 has an article about Miguel de Icaza and Mono. "Here's why Mono is hot: First, it promises to make translating most new Windows programs into Linux fast and easy. That means someday soon anything from Quicken to your company's supply-chain software could be ported over to Linux with the double click of a mouse. Second, Mono could speed up the development of new Linux applications by as much as a factor of three." Thanks to Ashwin N.

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The Penguin Takes Flight (Business 2.0)

Posted Dec 7, 2002 0:00 UTC (Sat) by cpeterso (subscriber, #305) [Link]

Mono also helps support Microsoft's new platform monopoly. As Microsoft's Windows monopoly is slowly crumbling, it has made a power grab for a new, more encompassing platform monopoly with .NET. Saying that Mono helps port apps from Windows to Linux ignores the fact that these are still Windows apps and will have lots of Windows cruft, crap, and Windows-only features that prevent easy porting to Linux.

No wonder Microsoft isn't worred. If Microsoft was worried about Mono, why would have released Rotor, their open source (BSD license?) .NET environment? Microsoft WANTS those "dirty hippies" to use .NET/Mono instead of Linux.

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Posted Dec 7, 2002 12:07 UTC (Sat) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

And besides, if Mono was hot, they would be collaborating with DotGNU, instead of duplicating a lot of effort. My Opinion (TM).

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Posted Dec 7, 2002 13:42 UTC (Sat) by bockman (guest, #3650) [Link]

AFAIK, there is no overlap between mono and DotGNU. Mono is after the C# compiler and the Common Runtime Library of .NET, while DotGNU is trying to develop a service alternative to Passport.

But it is a while that don't read anything about, so things may have been changed.

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Posted Dec 9, 2002 8:55 UTC (Mon) by leandro (subscriber, #1460) [Link]

> there is no overlap between mono and DotGNU.

Yes, there is, but that's not necessarily bad.

> Mono is after the C# compiler and the Common Runtime Library of .NET, while DotGNU is trying to develop a service alternative to Passport.

About Mono you are right, but DotGNU is much more. They have a Mono alternative called PortableNet, which is getting its first developers' releases now. But the implementation philosophies are different, so there's sane competition to it, not only effort duplication only.

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Posted Dec 9, 2002 8:26 UTC (Mon) by leandro (subscriber, #1460) [Link]

> Mono could speed up the development of new Linux applications by as much as a factor of three.

That's what happens when C descendants try to emulate Lisp. They could as well go for the real thing, that is, Guile. But that's this familiarity and legacy support thingie, besides popularity.