I'd always pigeon holed Mono as being one of those Microsoft token efforts at cross platform 'openess' aimed at avoiding anti-trust lawsuits and generally put that little bit of confusion and doubt into the non-Windows community.
(What with Mono being backed by Novell and Novell being backed by Microsoft) http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/18/47NF-microsoft-novell_1.html Keeping your friends close and your enemy's closer and all :o) On Nov 28, 1:02 am, Weiqi Gao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Weiqi Gao > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
