Hi Bhaskar A very interesting point put up by you but somewhere between the lines you are conflicting yourself.
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 02:31:55 -0800 (PST), Bhaskar Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ... Free Software is all about freedom ... freedom of choice. Based on the same argument one can spark a debate abt gnome, kde, xfce etc > 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. is there anything wrong about that ? should all software be only GPL / LGPL ? Is MIT X11 non free software like other commercial license. is MIT license taking away your code from you without your consent ? > 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. I have personally not used dotgnu but it ships with sus > 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 > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > All your favorites on one personal page â Try My Yahoo! > http://my.yahoo.com > > > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
