Re: bosses who want to research .NET alternatives
Re: bosses who want to research .NET alternatives
- Subject: Re: bosses who want to research .NET alternatives
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:14:10 -0700
On May 17, 2005, at 9:40 AM, Ted Thibodeau Jr wrote:
The .NET CLR is bound to MS Windows, but producing a .NET assembly
(if done according to the ECMA standard) leaves you free to use any
CLR (Common Language Runtime), including .NET and Mono.
True, but there is still the issue of Microsoft holding patents which
could be used to cripple Mono. I did a quick Google search for the
current state of things and it looks like for now M$ has granted them
the right to use the patented concepts, but there's no guarantee that
will hold in the future. Many people seem to think that if Mono
actually takes off, M$ will step in and cut them off at the knees.
All of this could turn out to be anti-Microsoft FUD, but personally I
would not want to put myself in a position of having my project even
potentially depend on a M$ product.
Just my $0.02,
janine
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