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> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> Homer wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> Not "Free Software", then?
>>>
>>> [quote]
>>> Miguel and his team will now continue to work on Mono, their first
>>> commercial product to be an iPhone (and then Android) .NET development
>>> stack:
>
>
> What a waste a human being!
>
> He should start his own Linux distro.
>
> No investor would refuse him the funds.
I called Mono "open core" in a 2009/2010 blog post headline. I was right.
Confirmed by the Microsoft MVP now...
>>> "The new versions of .NET for the iPhone and Android will be source
>>> compatible with MonoTouch and Mono for Android. Like those versions,
>>> they will be commercial products, built on top of the open core Mono."
>>> [/quote]
>>>
>>> http://www.osnews.com/story/24746/Miguel_De_Icaza_Announces_New_Company
>>
>> That's good of him to admit it, at last. He wants to spread Mono to iOS
>> and
>> Android. However...
>>
>> From the beginning I have always worried that Miguel's disregard for
>> Microsoft's patents on .NET will one day come back to bite him. This
>> latest action doesn't strengthen my faith in his decisions. Now he
>> has decided to port Mono to iOS, a platform where the vendor has been
>> extremely hostile to alternative development tools in the past and has
>> a penchant for changing the rules with no recourse for developers. That
>> said, Miguel is clearly no idiot and knows far more about the situation
>> than I do. To be in control of his own destiny again, I give him much
>> praise and wish him the best.
>>
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