Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
> Casper, your logic just doesn't add up.
> 
> Mono on linux is entirely analogous to something like soy latte - an
> open source build of java/C# on a specific platform.

That's not an accurate analogy either.  SoyLatte is based on the OpenJDK 
source.  Mono is a clean room implementation based solely on the C# spec.

So SoyLatte is to Mac OS X as IcedTea to Linux, and Mono is to Microsoft 
C#/.NET as GCJ (or Apache Harmony) to Sun JDK.

> The official apple java VM is analogous to microsoft releasing an
> official version of C# on linux.

> 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.

Mono has another goal: to bring Java style programming to GNOME.  And 
Banshee, F-Spot, and Tomboy proves that it is quite capable in that arena.

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