Re: [DotGNU]Microsoft & Mono

[Myrddian]

I'll give you the benifit of the doubt there, but You are correct on those 
points.

Stil taking over Ximian is not from a infrastructure point of view a good 
thing, 
not to mention adds to MS's bid on the monopoly case.


This way I think by doing this MS can say look we can co-operate, in front
of judges. Seems more like a PR move rather than an actual take over bid.

Lets not go to VM's Garbage collection has been since friggin SmallTalk
on OO languages so it's no new thing in term of computers.


 
> Corel deja vu all over again.  Since the start of Microsoft investment in 
> Corel, the support from Corel for Wine went from very good to none.
> 
> Although .NET is a target to kill Sun, more specifically Java.  There is a 
> concern, once Microsoft leverage enough momentum in the Linux community, they 
> will start to kill off Linux as well.  And dominate the world of web services.
> 
> The problem I'm seeing is, there is no need for CRL (Common Runtime 
> Language).  Java is very good for cross platform server-side programming.  
> You write once, run anywhere.  There's a component model in Java.  The only 
> thing Java need left is an open standard for Inter Component Communication 
> ... something like XML-RPC.  Beside C# is so much like Java, you can even 
> call it Java.
> 
> Take for example C# uses "using", Java uses "import".  C# uses the same 
> syntax and semantic as Java.  Microsoft markets the idea of "automatic 
> garabage collection."  But the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) already does that.
> 
> --kent
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