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izanbardprince
June 12th, 2008, 01:09 AM
This is not meant to become a Microsoft bashing thread.

That said, the inclusion of Mono in GNOME and hence, lots of distributions has kicked up quite a lot of controversy about whether it's a really safe, from a legal standpoint to include/use.

Now as for Mono itself, aside from patents, what I've seen of it, I really do like, some very good applications are written in it and it really takes a lot of the arduous and bothersome tasks out of programming, and speeds of software development a lot, speaking from a strictly technological point of view, it's many times better than JAVA, as programs written in C# are almost indistinguishable from native applications in performance and resource usage.

So I figured a poll, just your opinion and a short bit to say why.

FyreBrand
June 12th, 2008, 01:22 AM
I love programming in .NET. It's one of the funnest programming environments I've had a chance to use.

There may or may not be potential patent problems. Personally I think that if Microsoft has allowed, and even supported, the Mono project this long they would have a really hard time squashing its use via litigation. I also think they don't want to do that and even if they killed .NET (not going to happen anytime soon) Mono and .NET would keep on for quite a while.

ghindo
June 12th, 2008, 02:47 AM
I'm kinda confused about Mono. It's an open-source implementation of Microsoft software, right? Why even bother? Why not use some other programming language.

LaRoza
June 12th, 2008, 03:15 AM
I'm kinda confused about Mono. It's an open-source implementation of Microsoft software, right? Why even bother? Why not use some other programming language.

No, it is an open source implementation of an ECMA standard. It is language independent.

geoken
June 13th, 2008, 08:35 AM
There may or may not be potential patent problems. Personally I think that if Microsoft has allowed, and even supported, the Mono project this long they would have a really hard time squashing its use via litigation.

Why would you think that? The people they helped have payed Microsoft money to be allowed to use Microsoft's patent. If anything, wouldn't it strengthen their case?