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de Icaza: From Microsoft: C# and CLI under the Community Promise

Posted Jul 7, 2009 18:50 UTC (Tue) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
Parent article: de Icaza: From Microsoft: C# and CLI under the Community Promise

In hindsight, the Mono project should have split out the .NET stuff from the
very beginning. WinForms, ASP, ADO, WPF, ...

With that split out, the Fedora attitude to not including the Mono core seems
pretty juvenile to me. The whole Linux world is a compatible implementation
of a proprietary operating system. Serious case of NIH syndrome.

One might as well use the same argument with the POSIX API - it is derived
from Unix, the vendors cannot be trusted, therefore we should eliminate any
trace of POSIX and send Linux to an early grave. Or at the very least,
Microsoft could sanitize its systems from any POSIX influence. Maybe that is
what they already did.

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de Icaza: From Microsoft: C# and CLI under the Community Promise

Posted Jul 7, 2009 19:41 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

What Fedora attitude are you talking about? Fedora has included Mono for
quite sometime.

http://lwn.net/Articles/179597/

Fedora up until the last version includes Mono (because of Tomboy and F-
Spot). You don't get Mono by default if you install from the Live CD since
Fedora 10 but that's because of lack of space as opposed to anything legal.
Gnote will be default in Fedora 12, again because of the same reasons.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Alpha_release_not...

de Icaza: From Microsoft: C# and CLI under the Community Promise

Posted Jul 7, 2009 19:51 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Here is the correct release notes.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_not...

de Icaza: From Microsoft: C# and CLI under the Community Promise

Posted Jul 7, 2009 19:43 UTC (Tue) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

> The whole Linux world is a compatible implementation of a proprietary operating system. Serious case of NIH syndrome.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with NIH but rather the danger of exposing linux users to lawsuits.