OK. I don't want to bring my deep faith in GNU to this post. ;) But Microsoft has never been kind to us, free software users. There is a very nice article about this "promise" at http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono.
2009/7/25 Christian Thiele apper@apper.de:
Hi,
Am 25.07.2009, 18:20 Uhr, schrieb Osama KM osamak.wfm@gmail.com:
Well, C# and .NET in general are patented so they aren't free and they're bad choices.[1].
This post is outdated in my opinion. Microsoft reacted on it and is now applying the Microsoft Community Promise on the ECMA 334 and ECMA 335 specs of .NET [2]. And this is not only a "promise" but legally binding. There will be a mono version only having the core parts [3]. So I don't see problems using mono on the toolserver. But of course I understand if you don't want to use it ;).
[2] http://port25.technet.com/archive/2009/07/06/the-ecma-c-and-cli-standards.as... [3] http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jul-06.html
Sincerely, Christian Thiele
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