--- Joshua Zeidner wrote: I think I'm about to go OT... [snip] > > Does it matter who is 'sponsoring' Mono? The > entire project is > entirely dependent on the edicts of Microsoft Inc. > What is the history of the Java VM? I personally don't know. Did Sun implement it for every platform? Or were some platform VM's implemented outside of Sun? > > > > I'm not offended, but I don't agree that .Net > requries > > no skill. > > Who is making this claim? I may have misread that. > > I've been through this one on the AZIPA list, we > can have a 'look > what I can do!' conversation and start going through > all the great > things that technology X does compared to technology > Y, but I am > discussing long term costs and manageability here. > In the long term > Mono is going to be a monster. And that is how MS > wants it, they want Maybe they hope you convert to windows. Personally, I'd like to use MONO to go the other direction someday. And 'look what I can do' could just boil down to I prefer platform X and someone else prefers platform Y. .Net a platform based on IL (intermediary language) code running on a VM that JIT's the IL code to machine code at runtime. kinda like Java. MONO is a port of that to linux. I don't know how they did it. But for me it's like a doorway to possibly transition my current skills gently to another OS. For others, they can test some .Net stuff without using windows. I don't know how they built WINE either, but it helps me sometimes. I like that about OSS. Freedom to build something that's useful.. or maybe just to see if you can do it. Anyway, a little long winded... -j [snip] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss