> Mono on linux is entirely analogous to something like soy latte - an > open source build of java/C# on a specific platform.
Right, which you've had to resort to (or IcedTea in my case) the last 6 years if you wanted to run any kind of applet or webstart application on a 64bit system. Sun is finally going to provide that in update 12, albeit only for Firefox apparently and Solaris users are out of luck. > As you can see, C# just loses in this proposition: OpenJDK is far > closer to the official spec than Mono is to C#, and the non-open > source releases are available for far more platforms. Do I wish Microsoft would just distribute a runtime for Linux? Certainly! But Microsoft is first and foremost an OS supplier and that will dominate their agenda, it does not make economic sense for them to invest in alternatives and the concept of open source likely did not yet penetrate the rather thick scalp of their monkey CEO. Meanwhile, they are contributing with test suites and multimedia codecs for Moonlight (which my last comment was about, not Mono) and is partly warming up to the idea of open source and software as a service. At the end of the day, what really matters to most is if I can have a plugin in the browser than just does the job, then it matters less where it comes from. It would be great if something like JavaFX could run tight and swift, across the OS board, and with support for mainstream H.264 video - but that does not appear to be the case does it? /Casper --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
