<quote who="Stuart Guthrie"> > As far as anything to do with .NET bindings to FOSS, that will probably > end up a bigger can of worms than SCO. I can almost here big Bill in > Seattle in the background "Mwah, hwa, hwa" (little finger on side of > cheek)
Only if people use/rewrite non-ECMA bits, which may be encumbered. .NET is actually a really kickarse devel platform, and the MS guys have been very helpful with alternative implementations of it. Even if you dodge all of the MS-only, non-standardised stuff, it is still a great platform (as shown by the speed of the Mono project and unencumbered software based on it). For GUI apps, you can write against Qt or GTK+ wtih Mono/C# and port to Windows without using any MS-only, non-standardised stuff. It pays to be cautious, but not to be unnecessarily FUDly. Embrace and extend. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ "Ever had a morning where you were not kissed and told 'I love you,' when the night before you SCREWED so wildly that you could not remember? GOOD MORNING!!!!" - Andre Hedrick, Linux ATA Dude -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
