Comments on: Mono is here to stay. http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2006/12/15/mono-is-here-to-stay/ babblings of a computer loving fool Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 By: jrwren http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2006/12/15/mono-is-here-to-stay/comment-page-1/#comment-17479 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:08:45 +0000 http://little.xmtp.net/blog/2006/12/15/mono-is-here-to-stay/#comment-17479 Thanks for the replies. I’m especially thankful to Nathan and Anthony for putting me in my place. I was overly inflamatory on my reply. I still maintain that the original post was nothing more than FUD.

]]> By: Anthony http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2006/12/15/mono-is-here-to-stay/comment-page-1/#comment-17225 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:13:56 +0000 http://little.xmtp.net/blog/2006/12/15/mono-is-here-to-stay/#comment-17225 Buddy, before you insult others, you would do well to inform yourself rather than making ignorant posts.
First, obviously you have programmed more in Mono/.NET and have a vested interest. But that does not make your cheerleading any truer. While flawlessly mentioning the languages available for the CLR, you proceed to ‘contrast’ this with the languages available for the JVM: Groove and JPython. I don’t know about others, but I never heard of Groove, could you mean Groovy? And JPython has long been superseded by Jython, a very much active project. Then there is JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino and many others. To get a clue, visit http://www.robert-tolksdorf.de/vmlanguages.html
Whether the ‘dark side’ comment is FUD or not is irrelevant. That is how the majority of the open source community feels about MS. Mono already had problems overcoming the suspicions of the open source community before Novell decided to stab it in the back by making a noxious deal with MS, and the subsequent comments from MS executives about this ‘pact’ confirming that the open source community is infringing on MS patents, and that everybody but Novell can get sued. With this, the suspicions of the open source community have been confirmed, and nobody will touch Mono except for toy projects outside of Novell. Just because of this, the monkey is dead. And to put the dirt on the coffin, there comes Sun and annouces that Java will be open-sourced under the GPL, taking away any reason that may have remained to use Mono.

]]> By: Nathan Moore http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2006/12/15/mono-is-here-to-stay/comment-page-1/#comment-11250 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:15:53 +0000 http://little.xmtp.net/blog/2006/12/15/mono-is-here-to-stay/#comment-11250 Actually Sun is releasing their class library and vm’s public apis under the gplv2 with the classpath exception. So yes this means that it is still ok to use close source with suns jvm. Try reading this FAQ http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp#g It would be nice if your condemnation of others lack of fact checking, didn’t contain FUD about a competing product.

]]> By: Ayende Rahien http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2006/12/15/mono-is-here-to-stay/comment-page-1/#comment-11155 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:27:59 +0000 http://little.xmtp.net/blog/2006/12/15/mono-is-here-to-stay/#comment-11155 “Microsoft marketing once propagated which said that closed source was less than secure and written by uneducated teenagers.”

Can you get me a quote on that? I want to send it to all my clients 😀

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