Star C#, CLI Under Community Promise, Mono Split in Half
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Jul 2009 08:51 UTC, submitted by PLan
Mono Project 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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RE[11]: Comment by kaiwai
by jstedfast on Wed 8th Jul 2009 12:37 UTC in reply to "RE[10]: Comment by kaiwai"
jstedfast
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"As a Mono developer who was there on day 1, I can say, with confidence, that you are very very wrong. 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.


The Mono-project website lists "porting Windows .NET apps to Linux" as the fourth major feature of Mono. "

Correct, but it has never been our primary objective.

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