Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Jun 2009 21:29 UTC
We've had a lot of debates recently on the merits - or dangers - of Mono. We've had troubles with how Microsoft views Mono and whether or not everyone is safe using it, but we also had a public back-and-forth among Debian maintainers. During all this, Richard Stallman remained pretty mum on the issue, today he broke the silence on the FSF website.
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2008-06-12
Well both Flash and Java had a official Linux Runtimes. Even though they weren't opensource it does tell something about the vendors attitude towards Linux.
As for Java; Sun has always been cooperative in ragards to Java; just look at FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/java/) : "The FreeBSD Foundation has negotiated a license with Sun Microsystems to distribute FreeBSD binaries for the Java Runtime Environment (JRE™) and Java Development Kit (JDK™)".
Also for as far as I know there are no official licensees for the .NET platform. In contrast to Java where there are lots of them (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines)
So I think we can safely say there is a world of difference between Sun's Java Platform and Microsoft's .NET Platform.
I also wonder why people today want to use .NET in a *nix environment (where Mono obviously lags behind its reference implementation) when you can use Java, a similar platform that is a 100% open source ?