On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2. Is it .Net an open standard? .Net is the most direct competitor. > > Yes it is, first under ECMA and then ISO/IEC - where Microsoft has > exactly one vote and no veto right (unlike Oracle in the JCP). > Microsoft's implementation is however not open source, while other > implementations are. Given that you can write applications in C# and > deploy to iOS and Android, this standardization is clearly not just > theoretical of nature. > > Wrong!!! Please be more accurate in your answers, if dotnet was open then by definition Microsoft would also need to be open as they are the defacto implementation and by definition define the standard. The c# language may be open and a standard but who cares about that when the entire class libraries are not available under a free license. Any language no matter how wonderful is worthless without classlibraries. Therefore it is simply wrong to say dotnet is an open standard, just because some visible parts are open does not make the entire thing open. If the platform as a while were open then mono would only need to write the runtime and could leverage the Microsoft donated class libraries. Occassionally they can use some bits but they have not yet been able to do this. In the past these was more evident as large portions of the class libraries was incomplete and they even had a link with graphs and figures showing which packages were completed and so on. This is not as visible now that they are catching up and (almost) completed past versions. if dotnet is truely open plz explain why mono still write class libs...? > > 3. Alternatively, one should move to the completely community based > > platforms such as Python, etc... > > Yeah that's what the Scala people are doing. Recent events have me > starting to believe they are on to something. > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- mP -- 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.
