<snip> > > FYI, I received an e-mail asking about Ole support for libaspell. > > Since that is the first step toward .NET support, I would expect > > a lot of interest in that development. Is there interest here in > > Ole support? > > This will sound like an OS religious war, but is the .NET license compatible > with the GNU license? > Will the functionality seen by adding .NET stuff also translate into stuff > seen on other platforms such as BSD, Sun, Linux, CE, embedded, etc? > AFAIK, Microsoft did expose the .NET for other OS operators to attempt using, > but it was an initial attempt and I don't think neither Microsoft nor anyone > else is really putting much effort in keeping the other OS versions of .NET > up to date with the windows version of .NET. Then there is also the issue > concerning patents. Perhaps there are no patent concerns with .NET yet, but > since from the Linux perspective, Linux would be following microsoft's lead > on .NET here, so if microsoft decided to issue patented processes in .NET, > would the linux users follow, or would the linux users end up with an > incompatible (broken as advertised by Microsoft) version of Aspell? > When it comes to .NET, linux is a case of the tail attempting to wag the dog, > so it would have little to no say in terms of updates or improvements which > may get patented in future.
The open source equivalent is Mono? I can search for issue surrounding it, such as patents. For me the culture wars is not so interesting. Fact is there are lots of ordinary people who have to do projects based on decisions others make for them, and if it comes down that .NET support is required, there is nothing they can do. So the only question is, do those guys deserve our support. And the most important question, will they give back? If .NET is not compatible with the LGNU, then I can understand that providing .NET support would be like aiding and abetting a violation of the LGNU license. Bummer. > Today, many computers are running windows, but just reading www.slashdot.org > today, there is a posting mentioning how cisco is moving a fair bit of stuff > to linux as well. You can thank me for that ;-) Every tech. that I get involved with becomes obs. Rember Pascal and VAX/VMS? Of course every tech. becomse obsolute eventually. > Tomorrow, if you look at the progress of computing, you should see some of > the portable computers... you've got palmtops and cellphones with the > computing power of computers of 10 years ago. > I would prefer to take the ++ out of the C++, this would make the whole thing > more available across more platforms and OSes, but this is a personal > preference and I am not the maintainer. When I first leaned about C++, I didn't like the idea that you could see a statement like "a = b +c" and not know what it meant. But now I love it. Classes provide a nice framework to organize programs. Nothing I've worked with has the speed plus down to the nuts and bolts reach plus the ability to build up highly abstract classes. _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list Aspell-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
