> -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Kitts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:11 PM > To: Jeffrey Stedfast > Cc: Christopher McGinnis; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Mono-list] RE: Is it Mono safe? > > > On May 20, 2004, at 2:03 PM, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 13:50 -0700, Rick Kitts wrote: > >> On May 20, 2004, at 12:52 PM, Christopher McGinnis wrote: > >> > >>> [...snip...] > >>> I would have to whole heartedly agree. Good technology is good > >>> technology no mater where it comes from. > >> > >> Would you have accepted a technology that, say, reduced processor > >> heat by 2 orders of magnitude (whatever) from, say, > Stalin's soviet > >> union knowing what you know now about that mass murdering > government? > >> > >> I think the question at hand is not, or at least should > not be, about > >> what is practical. The CLR (or .NET if you'd prefer) is > pretty sweet > >> no doubt about it. There is an ethical question regards > adopting a MS > >> technology that will help MS. MS is not friendly to my ability to > >> choose. Enhancing their position in any way offers them increasing > >> potential to diminish my ability to choose. > > > > you are confusing the issue. it's not the idea that can limit your > > freedom, it's the implementation that can. > > > > that said, your concerns becomes moot. > > > > Jeff > > > > > I'm sorry but I don't understand what you're saying. > > ---Rick >
Just because .NET is a Microsoft concoction doesn't mean that writing applications for Mono's implementation will in anyway lock you into a Microsoft technology. The idea is out there and will be implemented and used. If the implementation runs into legal issues it will change to avoid those problems and Mono compiled applications may become incompatible with the Microsoft version of .NET. Also, what does ethics has to do with this conversation thread? We all know that Microsoft can be a bully. But I'm sure there are a multitude of other big business that try and bully as much as they can to get more market share. That is the nature of business. Worrying about your right choose seems like a silly thing to worry about since there we always be a choice whether is be OS/2, Mac OS X, Solaris, Be, Irix, or a band new OS some teenager made in his bedroom because he had nothing better to do. Why not instead worry about what new features you are going to put in your application, what direction do you want your product to go in, how can you improve the development cycle to release better products. To me these seems like things that should be worried about and to not be a paranoid conspiracy theorist. Your example of a Stalin Soviet Union is way to on the extreme side and only serves to provide drama. As I said earlier the nature of business is to edge out your competitors as best you can. Grow, devour, grow, and devour, that's what business does. It's just that no other business has be able to perform these actions as well or as easily as Microsoft has. If Microsoft started killing babies I'd have to stop using it. If a competitor goes away, so what. Chris Chris _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
