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(a)apper.de>de>:
Hi,
Am 25.07.2009, 18:20 Uhr, schrieb Osama KM <osamak.wfm(a)gmail.com>om>:
Well, C# and .NET in general are patented so they
aren't free and
they're bad choices.[1].
[1]: <http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono>
This post is outdated in my opinion.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.a…
[3]
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jul-06.html
Sincerely,
Christian Thiele
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