There are three different open source .NET projects under way right. For more information on them you might check out the following interview I conducted.
http://www.devx.com/devx/article/9725 Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ 888-408-0900 x901 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of michael kimsal > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 2:35 PM > To: tonyl > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [cms-list] WYSIWYG Editor suggestions; Idea > > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 13:37, tonyl wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have a thought and I wanted to check interested level... > > > > Now that .NET SSCLI works on BSD and Max OS X...I was thinking about > > creating a .NET Frame work WYSIWYG Editor. > > > > This would solve the cross platform portability issue...now that > > Microsoft seems committed to porting .NET to other operating > > systems...it would appear that the single platform argument against them > > will slowly disappear. > > > No, it's still as strong as ever. :) > > > Oh ya...the source code to the SSCLI is available for download from > > Microsoft's site. > > > > > Unless they port the actual class libraries to all the neato external > stuff - the stuff that actually makes it worthwhile (web forms classes, > for example) - this is a non-issue. > > VBScript has been ported (more or less) to Unix via Chilisoft years > ago. That didn't mean that all the external libraries (DLL files) > would run at all under Unix. > > Similarly, unless MS specifically opens the source to large volumes of > .net class libraries, the 'portable code' will be limited to > 'hello world'-type demonstrations. > > The go-mono.org project (I think that's it) has been making > a bit of headway in trying to port or reverse engineer > some of the libraries, but I don't think they have the manpower > to get it close to done any time soon. > > > > -- > Michael Kimsal > http://www.logicreate.com > 734-480-9961 > > -- > http://cms-list.org/ > trim your replies for good karma. -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
