"It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use"
"It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use."
This is a quote by Richard Stallman in an article on cnet news about the use of Mono. The issue comes down to the idea that Microsoft could enforce patents at some point against the use of C#.
I wonder if Bell Labs could enforce patents or anything against C++. Could Sun (or Oracle if they get to take over Sun) do the same with Java?
Maybe it is just that open source is only good and viable when it is IBM doing it and not when it is Microsoft.
If we listen to Stallman, then it sounds like you need to start using Visual Basic .NET with your Mono applications!
What do you think? Should we avoid C#?
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Re: "It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use"
I thought that Sun already had done this with the fight over J++ about a decade back. I didn't follow it closely, but I was under the impression that Sun declared that Java was open, but when MS added some extensions in J++, Sun decided that it wasn't open after all.
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I remember an issue with the Java VM a while back also and it was to do with licencing.
it caused issues when instaling xp or was it 98!
Re: "It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use"
Stallman is the most anti-Microsoft fanboy on this planet. I only take anything he says with a 5 lb salt lick.
Re: "It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use"
Such rubbish, Microsoft are not going to make such a school boy error. If anything I see the next few years being the refactoring of .NET into a smaller more portable paradigm and even more uptake on C#.
As computers become more complex MS are realising that the people who produce LOB applications are going to go for the most relabily quick framework given their current hardware/software combo.
MS are also aware that windows may not be that combo and know that their insistence on that goal was doomed to fail from the start since people like choice.
This would mean that it would make perfect sense to release a framework that ran everywhere but language choice meant that you where not tied to C#/VB alone.
My prediction for the next ten years is more language support for different .NET languages and cross platform from the framework itself. MS are not going to screw around with licenses and ruin all they have achieved.
On the subject of stallman and the free software movement. How does he suppose software devs get paid? Should we all work in pizza hut and develop software on the weekends. Free software is never going to hit critical mass for the simple fact that time is money. Always has been, Always will be.
Re: "It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use"
The guy looks like chewbacca, what more needs to be said
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