Comments on: The Free Software Foundation No Longer Interested in .NET Cloning?

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:56:45 +0000

It’s not about practicality alone. You’re ignoring the fact that it’s seen as an unacceptable legal risk.

By: Dan O'Brian

Dan O'Brian — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:40:24 +0000

I’ve actually been using Moonlight to view some sites. It works rather well. What is so sucky about it? Have you even used it? I highly doubt you have.

By: DanielHedblom

DanielHedblom — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:20:36 +0000

The only party that has something to gain from a GNU implementation of dotnet is Microsoft who can claim its cross-platform when its really not. If it was, how come Moonlight sucks so horribly?

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:42:57 +0000

Visual Studio is no more “write once, run only on Microsoft Windows” than Eclipse is “write once, run only on Solaris” or KDevelop/Anjuta are “write once, run only on Linux”.

I was referring to programming languages and platform-specific ‘extensions’.

By: Dan O'Brian

Dan O'Brian — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:04:37 +0000

It should be pointed out that any patents that affect Mono also affect DotGNU, regardless of what license DotGNU chooses.GPLv3 does not protect DotGNU users from any patents that the DotGNU developers do not have rights to.

By: Dan O'Brian

Dan O'Brian — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:32:03 +0000

Visual Studio is no more “write once, run only on Microsoft Windows” than Eclipse is “write once, run only on Solaris” or KDevelop/Anjuta are “write once, run only on Linux”.

I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry at your ignorance.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:30:20 +0000

Likewise, Anjuta and KDevelop are just poor man’s Visual Studios too.

The end product is very different though. You can’t really compare Eclipse/Beans to Visual Studio, which is “write once, run… well, on Microsoft Windows.”

I personally use Kate or nedit for development.

By: joe

joe — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:13:08 +0000

Likewise, Anjuta and KDevelop are just poor man’s Visual Studios too.

People should just use GNU/Emacs for development, who needs GUI clicking IDEs? GNU/Emacs + gdb is so much more powerful than anything Microsoft has and only newbs need a clicky interface.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:20:38 +0000

I think a more likely reason is that the FSF are no longer interested in having a .Net replacement as a *high priority project*. They are still interested in providing a free .Net implementation, but now they have other more important things to worry about such as a free Skype replacement and free 3d card drivers.

By: seller_liar

seller_liar — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:10:28 +0000

DotGNU is gplv3 .Mono is not.

But gplv3 is not the panacea box.FSF know this and dotgnu is not a priority anymore.

Thanks Roy and FSF!

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:06:58 +0000

Good post and welcome back.

I hope that the FSF goes from ignoring .NET and C# to actually rousting them, and other toxic payloads, from mainstream linux distros.

Java and Python seem to be the markets MSFTers are trying to break into with their proprietary imitations.

By: newkon

newkon — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:27:26 +0000

thanks good blog and post