On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:29, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> Sam Ruby wrote:
> > Kevin A. Burton wrote:
> > > - - No more competition from .NET/C#. (why would anyone want to support
> > > an MS proprietary language?)
> >
> > s/MS proprietary language/draft ECMA standard language/. ECMA also has a
> > fast path to ISO.
> >
> > With not one, but two [L]GPL implementations underway
> > (http://www.go-mono.com,
> > http://www.southern-storm.com.au/portable_net.html). Microsoft is even
> > teaming up with Corel to ensure that there is a version for FreeBSD.
>
> I am not in any way a Microsoft fan.
>
> That said, I appreciate their strategy - if they really make
> C#/.NET/<whatever> a genuine standard and don't do the usual embrace and
> extend [and extinguish] or lock up pieces with patents (that's where my
> money is...), then it all will come down to tools and services,
> something they actually do pretty well.
I am not familiar enough with it but I was under the impression that it is
just the language and an absolute minimum of the runtime that is
standardized. It would be the equivelent of stripping 95% out of java class
libraries and standardizing that. The rest is still kept closed I thought.
Cheers,
Pete
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