[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 12:59:16PM +0800, Jerome Tan wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> Am wondering if there's an equivalent for .NET of Microsoft in the Open >> Source world... > >Miguel De Icaza of Ximian has been threatening to do just that. There's >been a lot of press about it, search slashdot or newsforge, or Ximian's >site. He's even talked to people at Microsoft. I'm really not in agreement with Miguel de Icaza pushing for Ximian's Mono Project nor with the FSF's blessing of DotGNU. That in itself confirms, though not too apparently, that Microsoft's initiative is to become another standard in web development. It's like giving subtle approval to make a monopolist's initiative the next standard for everyone to work on. Well, even the underlying rules behind Microsoft's .NET initiative is still not so clear (with their bastardization of the free and open source movement - "shared-source" which is still in a lot of smoke), so there's no assurance that Microsoft won't assert its copyrights on .NET and exclude open source developers and the open source development model with it. Sure the Microsoft initiative might prove good... but then again we must mind what Microsoft's ulterior motives are... it's already damned obvious that they want to milk more cash cows with .NET. Let's not also forget that .NET is just a copy of Sun's ONE, which started way too long ago with the release of Java - at least Sun, though also a proprietary solutions company, gives support to Linux and the free and open source software movements. They're at least trying to open up to more platforms. Microsoft, on the other hand, wishes to close the world more to their own platform alone. Paolo Alexis Falcone __________________________________ www.edsamail.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
