>>Every article says that Mono is going to die.
Let's take a pole. Which do you think will die first?
A - Mono
B - Microsoft Visual Basic 6
The neat thing about open source is you can't kill it. If development stops
completely, it just grows old until someone else picks it up.
But the landscape is littered with the corpses of Win 95/98/Me, OS/2,
TopView, Actrix, etc. Closed source products die when the vendor decides.
Too bad if you based your network on OS/2, NT4 or Mac OS. MS is telling
developers that VB6 is soon to be no more. When you upgrade AutoCAD, the
license says you lose the right to run your previous versions. Hope you
don't need to access those old files you forgot to convert...
Ken Elliott
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Robert Snyder
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 11:27 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Biased Paranoia Against Open Source (Was Online File
Archive)
In there defense of my host, Mono is on very shakey ground. Every article
says that Mono is going to die. We are talking about a reverse engineered
product.
Also who cares if microsoft gets sued. It happens everyday
I went out and I did put mono on my new linux box and while the app to
putting the files on the server it still not really what I wanted. I ended
up just coding a small text based no graphical interface php script with a
postgres backend to keep track of the files.
On 7/29/05, Eric Jahn <eric@ejahn.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 08:30 -0600, John Pugh wrote:
> > Bummer - guess that rules out pretty much a large portion of open
> > source since MS and IBM(and others) hold significant patents that
> > "could" pose legal problems.. In that case, you may find that the
> > proprietary licensed version of iFolder is a less expensive
> > alternative and provides everything you are looking for and much more.
>
> So, by this host's logic, since Microsoft is also constantly being
> sued as well for patent infringement (as they predict for mono), their
> products shouldn't be installed within their host environment either.
> Sounds like a double standard biased against open source <sarcasm>
> Wouldn't want to use anything that someone possibly else would
> possibly desire to lay claim to... that would be way too risky.
> </sarcasm>
>
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