On Tuesday 31 July 2001 16:09, Krishnan wrote:
--- Philip S Tellis philip.tellis@iname.com wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, S. Krishnan wrote:
If anyone's interested, there's now a C#
compiler
for linux. It's packaged with portable.NET, a system for non-microsoft platforms.
Would anyone (outside M$ afficiandos) be
interested?
Yes. Everyone should be interested. This same question was asked on freshmeat, and then answer is there to be read.
by Sam Kennedy - Mar 14th 2001 09:08:22 > why? Well, .NET should be supported. World dominationdoesn't happen by rebuilding things, but by taking them over. This is a way for Opensource to take over .NET!!
And lose it all when M$ pulls the rug out from under our feet?
May not be very easy for M$ to do that. It is a risk that should be taken. One probable reason why the Ximian guys jumped on to .net is to piss off Sun who pulled out funding from the Ximian/whatever foundation. As long as Ximian stays out of M$ $ they should succeed in preventing any rug pulling and only have cops n robbers games to play.