After 2.0 release, Miguel de Icaza reflects on Mono's past and future
Few free and open source software projects have attracted such a range of reactions as Mono. On one hand, as an implementation of Microsoft's .Net that's sponsored by Novell, it has been vilified both for the company it keeps and as a possible source of patent claims, should Microsoft choose to get nasty.
On the other hand, Mono has been the platform of choice for such major projects as Second Life, which uses it to increase the efficiency of its servers. This week, as the Mono project reached version 2.0, Miguel de Icaza, the project's founder and maintainer, talked with Linux.com about the history of the project, its application and the criticism leveled at it, and where the project goes from here.
Mono 2.0 is a milestone in the project because, as Novell product manager Joseph Hill explains, "We're really signalling that we've completed compatibility with .Net 2.0's API."
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Miguel, why does Novell buy 'Protection' for Mono then?
FTA: "The position of the Mono project has always been that we believe .Net includes a lot of innovation along with a good mix of well-known technology. So, if people found a patent infringement, we would take it out. If there's prior art, though, the patent is invalid. This is the way it is done in the open source world. A good example is Freetype. They discovered that they could not use a byte code interpreter for fonts, so they invented a different approach."
If there is no known in infringement, why is Novell buying a licence ('protection') for its paying customers?
don't feed the troll
nT
Meh who cares
Luckily I don't let religion or politics interfere with my technology.
My CentOS/Mono/Deki Wiki (which runs on top of Mono and is the BEST Wiki out there) box is working just fine, and that's pretty much ALL I care about.