I’m doing everything I can… and stop calling me Shirley

Posted January 25, 2006 * Comments(3)

It’s sad to see IBM and Mainsoft profiting from the Mono project’s hard work when Novell doesn’t seem to be able to. At least Mono got picked up by Fedora if not RedHat. That and Ubuntu Dapper including Mono 1.1.3, at least will benefit the end user.

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  1. Laurent Debacker on January 25th, 2006

    That’s the rules of free and open-source development :D You can make bucks without coding, or coding days and nights and finish in the street.

    The most annoying is that, as far as I understand, it will run ASP.NET on Java. Therefore it will not really encourage developers to use ASP.NET instead of Java.

  2. Fawad Halim on January 27th, 2006

    Mainsoft may not have contributed as much as Novell did, but they are still a huge mono project contributor. They deserve to cash in on the goldmine that is mono.

  3. Erik Dasque on January 27th, 2006

    I must respectfully disagree with your point, Fawad.

    I wish it wasn’t the case but as you can see if you follow Mono CVS commits it hasn’t been true in a long while. While Mainsoft’s contribution was significant a few years back, these days, they mostly contribute Mainsoft-only changes to their #ifdef branch, rip the benefit of Novell sponsoring and marketing Mono while in effect competing directly with the open source project by targetting the ‘migration to Linux’ user instead of the ‘consolidating on J2EE’ one.

    Also, IBM has never contributed to Mono AFAIK, always pushed against it and largely ignores the fact that this migration program from .NET to J2EE is largely based on Mono efforts. This is especially sad when you consider that Mono was ported to the S390 architecture a while ago and constitutes and excellent option and usage of Linux VMs on their customer’s mainframes.

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