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Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development? (O'ReillyNet)Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development? (O'ReillyNet)Posted Mar 12, 2004 17:47 UTC (Fri) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723)Parent article: Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development? (O'ReillyNet)
How can free software programmers be enthusiastic for software directed by the most hostile company toward free software? That is beyond my understanding, sorry.
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Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development? (O'ReillyNet) Posted Mar 12, 2004 20:41 UTC (Fri) by crankysysadmin (guest, #19449) [Link] As far as I can tell, the only thing Mono has going for it that's at all convincing is Miguel de Icaza. In my opinion, even if license-wise Mono isn't as dangerous as it seems (as de Icaza says in the article), PR-wise it is extremely silly for Linux.Sorry to be marketing-oriented for a minute, but the whole hearts and minds argument (unfortunately) really does carry weight. If M$ is still perceived to be the industry leader behind which Linux follows/must follow, why would anyone ever switch to Linux? Not to mention that a development platform can be as cool as you want, but if it's bloated it will allow bad developers to write seethingly bad code. Can't we come up with a development platform that to a greater extent forces people to bring a freaking clue to the party? I mean, I'd use a Mono app if Miguel wrote it, but not the guys I work with. Same with Java. </rant>
Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development? (O'ReillyNet) Posted Mar 15, 2004 20:10 UTC (Mon) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487) [Link] I mean, I'd use a Mono app if Miguel wrote it, but not the guys I work with. Don't be too harsh to your guys, and don't overestimate the purely public figure which Miguel de Icaza is. The only real app Miguel wrote that I use is the venerable mc, and it was never known for code quality or stability, and it has gotten much much better since he left it alone.
Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development? (O'ReillyNet) Posted Mar 18, 2004 15:37 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] He's done quite a lot of UltraSPARC Linux kernel work in days of yore as well.
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