[ILUG] Re: [ILUG-Social] GNOME to "embrace & extend" .NET !

[Jeremy Smyth]

Quoting Ruairi Newman <bofh at tech-mad.org>:

> told us today. "Instead of wasting our time trying to create a
> new standard 
> we're embracing .NET and extending it for our own purposes." 

I'm SOO there. Have you looked at .NET? it's a lovely idea, bit of a 
behemoth and a bit "resistance is futile - we will assimilate you". 

Problem: Mono? 
http://www.ximian.org/mono or 

dotGNU ? 
http://dot-gnu.sourceforge.net/ 

They both seem to have different priorities - Mono is emphasising a 
new C# compiler and is planning to implement the Common Language 
Runtime and class libraries, dotGNU is hoping to replace both the CLR 
platform AND the passport/hailstorm thing. XNS.org looks very 
interesting in that regard.

See http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/07/09/238201 for more 
fun and games.

/jer

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