Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Jul 2009 20:49 UTC
The Mono discussion may be tiring, but the fact of the matter is that thanks to this discussion, various major Linux distributions are now making official statements detailing their position in the Mono/C# debate. The latest to do this is Ubuntu, which reiterated their position yesterday.
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That's all the anti-mono crowd is, witch hunters. If it was some other company other than Microsoft this would be a non-existent issue. I mean seriously, they might as well attack AJAX. C# is a solid language based on open standards, and its here to stay. Mono has a lot of potential. Keep up the good work Ubuntu and Debian.
Also, Mono's implementation of .net I feel would be a litigation nightmare for Microsoft if they wanted to test the patent waters. Its not like HashTables, ArrayLists or pretty much everything else in the .net framework is new. WinForms might be one area, but they already have a GTK counter-part.
Might as well have Sun/Oracle sue Microsoft since C# is a virtual rip-off of Java. MS has NO legal recourse and they know it. In the mean time they are getting Linux developers to write applications for their platform!