Peter Donald wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Ah. Not sure. I wasn't about to believe that it would be fully open,
but was expecting it to be visible but protected somehow.
Sam? (He's 'sort of' heavily involved with this :)
geir
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