__/ [ John Bailo ] on Thursday 05 April 2007 20:46 \__
>
> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11081/1090/
>
> "A little over five months has gone by since the Microsoft-Novell deal
> was signed but some details still remain unknown.
>
> Of particular interest is the fact that nothing has been said about the
> role which Mono will play in the deal. Mono, for the uninitiated, is the
> project run by Gnome co-founder Miguel de Icaza, to try (desperately)
> and replicate Microsoft's .NET development environment on Linux. It is
> now part of Novell after it bought Ximian, de Icaza's company, four
> years ago. "
the author is actually quite critical. He should be. While it's okay for some
businesses to require migration of .NET applications to Linux, it leads to
legal issues and it only encourages use of the Microsoft API.
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