Unix was originally all about not being... Multics. If Mono is to follow a similar nomenclature (just for the kicks), we have to talk about Mono's upcoming 'monopolization' and 'monarchy' in the next generation of the Unix programming land. Your see, if everything goes well, in 2 to 3 years most new Gnome user/desktop applications will be written --hopefully-- in Mono and C#. Update: Miguel deIcaza replies.
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> Mono would be a great solutions if there wouldn't be the risk of patents controlled by microsoft
There existing only the rist, that their Windows-Forms implementation or ADO.NET implementation are lost.
But on the mono-runtime on the core-classes Microsoft have [u]no[/u] patents.
Read section "Patents" under the Mono-FAQ for more information. And have a look at the nice "Mono components"-image:
http://www.go-mono.org/faq.html#patents
> Mono would be a great solutions if there wouldn't be the risk of patents controlled by microsoft
There existing only the rist, that their Windows-Forms implementation or ADO.NET implementation are lost.
But on the mono-runtime on the core-classes Microsoft have [u]no[/u] patents.
Read section "Patents" under the Mono-FAQ for more information. And have a look at the nice "Mono components"-image:
http://www.go-mono.org/faq.html#patents
Steve