Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Hotskills: Mono lets .net developers run applications on Linux
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| To Mono's founders, the proprietary/open-source battle was less important
>| than issues of co-existence and the most appropriate platform for the job.
>| According to Justin Steinman, Novell's director of product marketing for
>| Linux and open platform systems, and the man in charge of selling Mono to the
>| world, "Mono essentially enables you to run .net applications on Linux,"
>| giving you the choice of developing for either platform knowing that it will
>| run on both.
> `----
>
> http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/10/01/227121/hotskills-mono-lets-.net-developers-run-applications-on.htm
> http://tinyurl.com/39hfxl
>
> Be aware that Steinman's "night job" (that's what he calls it) now involved
> both Microsoft /and/ Novell. This duality is similar to de Icaza's role at
> Novell.
It's impressive spin, and I can see it convincing the under-informed
quite nicely, which is the intention. Of course, since pretty much
nobody out there has a clue what .Net is, then I can't see it being all
that helpful.
An interesting question to pose to a shilling journalist might be
something like "will running .Net on Linux result in fewer trojans,
viruses, botnets and spyware?".
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