On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:36:06PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
So is mono more like a loader or an execution environment, or am I
(probably) confused?
Speaking of Mono...
Chuck: Are you in any way concerned about your marriage to Mono and it's
relationship with Microsoft and their habit of screwing people over? Any
chance of you running into liability over software patents or some other
such thing? How about this Novell/Miguel de Icaza thing and their
relationship with Mono and Microsoft etc? Sounds like complicated legal
territory.
It depends a lot on what parts of the CLR you are dependent on. The core
with libraries has a fairly unrestrictive license as part of it being a
standard. What people are concerned about is the extra libraries that MS
is off writing.
Honestly, though, Miguel has definitely said things that scared me. There
is also a lot of implementation stuff that betrays a definite Windows bent
to it.
Technically, I think it's a lot better choice of a runtime than Java.
Dave
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