Hello Amish,
> Following poll is still available at http://forum.ilug-bom.org.in, we
> have received 53 votes. I would be closing the poll in 2 days. If you
> still need+to vote for a topic please do so asap.
I don't understand why everybody here is such a big fan of Mono where
there is another project DotGNU which also aims at implementing the
.Net for GNU/Linux on a plethora of other arch plus other OSes too in a
way being 100% portable. The DotGNU project is managed by the FSF
itself with RMS in the steering committee.
Now here a lot of people may ask why there are two projects with the
same goal ... the thing is that the DotGNU people earlier have tried to
merge the two projects together but all they got were verbal volleys
from our very favourite Miguel de Icaza. The main problem at the moment
is that the Mono guys (read Novell) doesn't want to have Mono under a
Free Software license and they also recently changed their library
licensing from LGPL to MIT's X11 license to make it more unrestrictive.
They also plan to sell Mono to companies under proprietary licenses if
they want to. Talking about technical issues, DotGNU is faster than
Mono as Mono is self hsoting (written in C# itself) and Mono also has a
very weird approach towards implementing the Windows.Forms thingy ...
they have done it using Wine whereas DotGNU only needs X to run
Windows.Forms What Mono seems to me at the moment is that it's just a
C# development environment for GNU/Linux and doesn't intend to be 100%
compatible with MS .Net ... they are trying to push GTk# instead of
Windows.Forms ... who'll use GTk# if Windows.Forms works perfectly ? As
far as DotGNU is concerned, GTk# or any free software libs can be
easily made to work with DotGNU's Portable .Net. The fact that Gopal V,
one of the major contributors to the DotGNU project ported the Portable
.Net to the Encore Simputer in 3 hours flat on Linux Bangalore/2004
this time bears testimony of the portability issue.
While I don't intend to demean Mono in any way, I dislike their
attitude towards the Freedom aspect in general and the DotGNU project
in particular. (Rhys Weatherley and others have relicensed DotGNU code
to Mono under their MIT's X11 license but the reverse has not happened
till date). The DotGNU project needs our help and it's time we got our
facts right and decided whom we should support.
More info on http://www.dotgnu.org
Regards,
Bhaskar Ghose
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