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Stompy · 04-01-2004, 08:37 PM

Since .NET is Microsoft's answer to Java, do they have any plans to follow suit and actually make a cross-platform compiler/interpreter, or are they looking at it as a "let's do something good for US" as opposed to "let's do something good for technology"?

I'm not too familiar with Mono and how well it runs under Linux, but it seems kinda risky to closely imitate one of their technologies like that. If MS were to obtain a patent for .NET, wouldn't Mono be done with?

I find it incredibly odd that they haven't done it yet, because after all, .NET itself (even basic compilers) is free under Windows. It's not that it has to be open source because Java isn't even open source. What could it be?

You'd figure that with being the way they are regarding dominance that they'd at least want to place their mark or take a step forward in the cross-platform world.

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Stompy Banned from being Banned Location: Donkey	Does MS have plans to make .net cross platform? Since .NET is Microsoft's answer to Java, do they have any plans to follow suit and actually make a cross-platform compiler/interpreter, or are they looking at it as a "let's do something good for US" as opposed to "let's do something good for technology"? I'm not too familiar with Mono and how well it runs under Linux, but it seems kinda risky to closely imitate one of their technologies like that. If MS were to obtain a patent for .NET, wouldn't Mono be done with? I find it incredibly odd that they haven't done it yet, because after all, .NET itself (even basic compilers) is free under Windows. It's not that it has to be open source because Java isn't even open source. What could it be? You'd figure that with being the way they are regarding dominance that they'd at least want to place their mark or take a step forward in the cross-platform world.