Re: [DotGNU]Announcement - DotGNU Focus and Direction

[Gopal V]

If memory serves me right, Rhys Weatherley wrote:
> However, providing an alternative doesn't mean that we have to precisely
> clone what Microsoft or Ximian is doing.  There are aspects that we need
> to be compatible with for interoperability purposes, but we have a great
> deal of latitude to branch out in new and unexpected directions.

Especially since there might be landmine patents in the .NET framework
spec ... (zdnet.com article).... Let's not completely follow the same
path as MS , even if the results are similar :-)

> first we need to address the community issues: bring more people into 
> the project who share our Free Software goals.  Then we need to code,
> code, and code some more.

Yes ! YES ! ... But any community needs leaders and well visible ones
too ... Until the IRC meets we never had an oppurtunity to "meet" the
Portable.Net leader :-) ... My opinion is that you should hang around
and lurk in the IRC room (if you have a full time net conn) ...

> For example, the Parrot VM is claimed to be universal, but they don't
> have full-blown C# and C compilers capable of generating bytecode.

OK, so who's going to to do PVCodegen(ILNode_*) ? :-) ...

I have a working install of Parrot CVS head on my box already.
Maybe I could help by figuring out Pasm ??

> need support for distributed authentication and profiles.  Perhaps
> address@hidden can help?

Is Phpgroupware going to use MACS ?

> and maybe, just maybe, getting some help in return.

Just "pay" attention .... :-)

> broaden our support base by "thinking outside the .NET box" as it were.

I'm starting out on this idea right now ... with *hush* :-0...

Gopal
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