Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Jul 2009 08:51 UTC, submitted by PLan
We've already seen some heavy discussion on Mono and C# here on OSNews the past few weeks, as it became clear the patent situation regarding the ECMA parts of Mono was anything but faith inspiring. This issue seems to be resolved now: Microsoft has made a legally binding promise not to sue anyone who uses or distributes implementations of said ECMA standards. Following this news, Mono will be split in two; the ECMA standard parts, and the rest.
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Mono was created to make it easier to write applications on Linux. The original goal of Mono was never to be the WINE of .NET and our main goal has not changed.
We've implemented Windows.Forms for completeness and to aid in porting Windows .NET apps to Linux, but it was never our focus.
well, as a person who can freaking READ, no i am not very very wrong.
do a quick google search for 'mono'. then, do yourself a favour and read exactly what comes up as the summary for the mono website. i dare you.
if that isn't the position of the mono developers, then that should most definitely not be how they officially describe their project.
straight from the horse's mouth:
which, you'll have noticed, is precisely what i said. "
No, you insinuated that the primary goal of Mono (e.g. what's considered "important") was to make it easy to get Windows .NET apps to run on Linux. That is wrong, and the statement you quoted above does not back up your statement at all.
Mono *does* provide the necessary software to develop and run .NET client & server apps on different platforms, but the statement doesn't claim it was our primary objective (aka "most important objective").