On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:22 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mono's main mission seems to be championing Microsoft technologies and > standards with product innovation and quality serving as a means to > that > end. So for people who are resistant to that style of Microsoft > fanaticism > and want to avoid an all-Microsoft, Microsoft-everywhere, avoid Mono > is > logical. > > Luckily Mono will go down sooner rather than later, together with its sponsor, SUSE, although it remains to be seen if Id de Icaza will go down with it, too.
In fact, a great news is the shutdown of the Silverlight Linux clone, Moonlight, which was useless anyway (the only usage scenario I have is for paid VOD sites, and those require the DRM components of Silverlight that Moonlight never provided). Moonlight is dead, and so is Silverlight http://www.muktware.com/3644/moonlight-dead-so-silverlight ----- Miguel de Icaza, the creator of Mono, and Moonlight has announced that Moonlight will no longer be maintained. Moonlight was not in a very healthy state. de Icaza told me during an interview that there are many reasons why Moonlight could never become a true alternative of Silverlight, why services like Netflix could never work under Linux. In a recent interview de Icaza has made it clear that Moonlight is now dead<http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/29/3050936/mono-abandons-moonlight-open-source-linux-silverlight>. "We have abandoned Moonlight. These days we no longer believe that Silverlight is a suitable platform for write-once-run-anywhere technology, there are just too many limitations for it to be useful." ----- But wait, it gets better: ----- But why is his company Xamarin suddenly dropping Moonlight? de Icaza explains, "Silverlight has not gained much adoption on the web, so it did not become the must-have technology that I thought would have to become." In addition, "Microsoft added artificial restrictions to Silverlight that made it useless for desktop programming." Isn't it a wakeup call for developers to stay away from Microsoft technologies such as C#, .NET and Mono. Why to enrich the ecosystem of a company which is known for abusing its power to weaken free software? A reddit user sums it very well<http://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/u7onz/iama_mono_maintainer_in_debian_and_ubuntu_ama/>, "From my non-C#-user point of view, the main reason people possibly dislike Mono (the reason I dislike Mono, and my view wont be alone) ist that by using Mono and C#, you enrich an ecosystem that "belongs" to Microsoft, like ObjC "belongs" to Apple. You have a foe, and instead of using a language that originates in your ecosystem, and writing a library that benefits your ecosystem, you'd write in your foe's language and your lib would benefit your foe's ecosystem. ----- FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "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.
