Mono: Maturing, but Relevant?
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| On the legal front, Microsoft and Novell have signed agreements to work
| together on some parts of Mono, and Novell and Microsoft have various other
| agreements in place. The Mono contributors have also pointed to the published
| ECMA specs for C# as the basis for their work, and have consistently said
| they remain ready to rewrite any portion of Mono that Microsoft should some
| day assert claims against (so far, there have been no such claims).
|
| Despite all of this, Mono seems to still be a marginal player in the open
| source world. A search of SourceForge, for example, reveals less than 400
| projects mentioning Mono, and C# projects (on whatever infrastructure) are
| vastly outnumbered by others. For whatever reason, the open source community
| has not widely embraced C# - whether this is due to its Microsoft roots,
| worries that Microsoft's murky IP policies will someday make Mono an
| untenable platform, or for other reasons.
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http://ostatic.com/158588-blog/mono-maturing-but-relevantss
Acacia Trollporation is still busy. With Microsoft employees in house it has
already attacked Novell.
Acacia Subsidiary Enters into License Agreement with Siemens
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| Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTG) announced today that its Disc Link
| Corporation subsidiary has entered into a license agreement with Siemens
| Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. The agreement resolves the
| parties’ dispute concerning patents relating to the distribution of CDs or
| DVDs that include a link to retrieve additional data via the Internet.
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Here comes Novellsoft again:
Novell Will Key On Interoperability Of .Net And J2EE Platforms
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| Novell plans to focus on interoperability between the .NET and J2EE platforms
| and put a renewed emphasis on customer relationships, Ron Hovsepian, Novell
| CEO and president, said Monday during a keynote at the company's BrainShare
| conference in Salt Lake City.
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| An important element of Novell's strategy, he said, is built around
| enterprise IT management software. "There are two stacks of software that
| will exist inside your enterprises that you'll want to build applications on
| top of," he said, referring to the J2EE stack and Microsoft's .NET
| stack. "The core piece of what we try to do is focus in on the harmony
| between those IT stacks." Hovsepian also said Linux is another key piece of
| Novell's game plan. "Linux is the foundation of what we're trying to get
| done, from desktop to data center," he said. "It will play a key role going
| forward in the future."
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http://www.crn.com/software/206904156
At least someone is doing it right...
Eclipse launches super run-time project as alternative to Java and .NET
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| The Eclipse organization has amassed a huge installed base of developers
| using its Java-based open source development tools. Now the organization has
| set its sights on the run-time arena and will take on Sun’s Java and
| Microsoft’s .NET with what it says is an agnostic open source component model
| that runs across multiple operating systems and computing tiers.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2136
There are many other interesting announcements from this Eclipse conference.
All great for Open Source...
Related:
Tasky, another good tool, another bad idea
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| Because it's written in C#. And guess what? Copyright (C) 2007 Novell, Inc.
|
| [...]
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| No word about dependencies. No word about Mono. Nothing alarming in the Goals
| section.
|
| [...]
|
| Now you know. In that f--ing Novell's Hackweek they could have started a new
| project in a different way — but no, they wanted it in Mono!
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/02/29/11/09/37-tasky-another-good-tool-another-
It's tiresome to stick to a few principles, or: Mono is FUD
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| As a final note, it would be nice if the new Fedora Project Leader would make
| a public statement on Mono. Heck, Max could too know whether Red Hat is not
| shipping Mono with RHEL because of patents, because it's wrong to do it,
| because they don't want to support it, or because they don't support it yet.
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/02/25/08/52/11-it-s-tiresome-to-stick-to-a-few-
OpenSolaris, Gobuntu, and be careful who you kiss
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| I read the agreement between Xandros and Microsoft, and one of the excluded
| products was Mono, so Microsoft promises to not sue Xandros over their
| distribution but excluding Mono and a few other products, i.e. they reserve
| the right to sue over Mono. I wonder if this is an interesting preview of on
| what basis they want to fight the free world.
|
| Interestingly, the Novell deal seems to be different, Mono is not excluded
| from the Novell deal. So Microsoft seems to be promising not to sue Novell
| over Mono, but keeps the option open for Xandros. Weird but true.
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http://commandline.org.uk/2007/be-careful-who-you-kiss/
Miguel, Mono and Microsoft
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| is Mono's role in the deal that of a hook to make customers write
| .NET applications because they can be run on Linux - only to find
| later on that they are armless or legless because of a change in
| the .NETspecifications, a change which Microsoft decides not to
| make public?
|
| [...]
|
| And here we have an individual who decides to replicate one of
| the proprietary company's development environments - for reasons
| best known to him alone - and keeps telling people that the reason
| he's doing it is so that he can pull people over from the
| proprietary company's side to his side!!!
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11081&Itemid=1091
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