Mono Already Dead?

Seth Nickell thinks Mono is to encumbered by Microsoft and too full of risks to be a viable option. Paulo and Miguel  have already sufficiently discussed this topic, and nothing Seth has to say leads me to believe otherwise. The simple fact is that the Open Source community NEEDs a managed execution environment upon which they can standardize and a set of base class libraries to go with it, or they absolutely will not be able to compete in the coming years. The only other reasonable choice is Java, and it faces much more of these kinds of issues that Seth raises. Of course, the most patent-free route would be for the Open Source community to innovate and create some of their own stuff instead of photo-copying other people's ideas... but when is the last time that happened?

 

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  • "The simple fact is that the Open Source community NEEDs a managed execution environment upon which they can standardize and a set of base class libraries to go with it, or they absolutely will not be able to compete in the coming years."



    That fact (especially combined with MS's continued refusal to talk about their views on Mono) should be enough to keep OSS devs away from Mono for the very reasons Seth states.

  • "Of course, the most patent-free route would be for the Open Source community to innovate and create some of their own stuff instead of photo-copying other people's ideas... but when is the last time that happened?"



    s/Open Source/Microsoft/g

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