Andrew C. Oliver wrote: >On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 03:14, Peter Donald wrote: >> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:38, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: >>>> Are you upset at the way Java is being handled by SUN? >>>> >>>> Do you feel lied to about the fact that SUN is still keeping Java >>>> proprietary even after they promised us for *years* that it would be >>>> standardized? >>>> >>>> Are you looking towards .NET/C# as an alternative but still optimistic >>>> about Java? >>> >>> Heck no. .NET/c# why would I want to use an even more proprietary thing >>> to get back at SUN? Heck no. >> >> You sure it is more proprietary? I believe our PMC head actually sits as head >> on one of the standardization efforts for C#s core libraries. With the recent >> change to BSDL/MIT licensing with one of the opensource runtimes things are >> starting to look interesting. > > Can I run it on Linux? Will a WORKING non-broken version ever run on > Linux.
Peter is correct. A few links (you can see my name in the first one): http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/MEMENTO/TC39-G3.HTM http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/NEWS/NEWS.HTM http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/02/04/mono.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23919.html http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/mono.html http://www.gnu.org/projects/dotgnu/ http://www.halcyonsoft.com/news/javadotnet.asp http://www.microsoft.com/partner/products/microsoftnet/SharedSourceCsharpCLIFAQ.asp For those who don't know me and might perceive this as an endorsement, I have worn Microsoft shirts to JavaOne (just ask Pat Sueltz), and NetScape shirts to the Microsoft PDC (just ask Dick Hardt or the MS VP in charge of Hailstorm who's name escapes me at the moment). Note: there are some people who view open source implementations of .Net as controversial as, say, open source implementations of popular MS file formats, for pretty much the same reasons. For my part, I have no interest in "sticking it to Sun". Or to Microsoft for that matter. I simply want to see more of us working together. That's why I integrated PHP and Java. That's why I created Gump. That's why I participate in these standards. - Sam Ruby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
