On Feb 21, 5:52 pm, Jim Richardson <warl...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:48:10 -0600,
> Tom Shelton <tom_shel...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On 2008-02-21, Jim Richardson <warl...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:14:02 -0600,
> >> Tom Shelton <tom_shel...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> On 2008-02-21, Linonut <lino...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> * Tom Shelton peremptorily fired off this memo:
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> >>>>> On 2008-02-21, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>> ____/ Tom Shelton on Thursday 21 February 2008 08:19 : \____
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> >>>>>>> "mono contamination" - because it really is attracting some interest
> >>>>>>> in the .NET community.
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> >>>>>> In the Linux community also -- and not in a good way.
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> >>>>>>http://newsforge.com/feed/127462
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> >>>>>> This was viewed about 6000 times for a reason. Without /. effect or
> >>>>>> anything... in fact, Paul and Mark of Fedora and Ubuntu were
> >>>>>> informed of this problem as well.
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> >>>>> I respect your oppinion on this issue, but I believe you are
> >>>>> misguided . Do you really want to loose the interest of some 6
> >>>>> million odd developers (last i saw a figure, could be more or less
> >>>>> now)?
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> >>>> Are you saying that 6 million developers will try to leverage .NET on
> >>>> Linux?
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> >>> No - I really doubt that will happen, but that is the potential market
> >>> that could be won over :)
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> >> You think that there are 6million .net developers?
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> > Hard to say... I was looking it up, and that number was for old visual
> > basic developers. I'm not sure how many of those have made the
> > transition to .net. But, I'm fairly confident that the number is
> > definately in the millions.
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> Nebulous enough I guess. Does that count as "developer" all persons who
> had a (legal) copy of VB dev env ?
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> Not sure how else you'd count it.
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> Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
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Really not sure how that was counted. It was just the estimated
number of vb developers world wide.
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Tom Shelton
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