Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:21:51 +0107 (CEST) From: "Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek" <FST777@phreaker.net> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .NET on FreeBSD Message-ID: <0HD400JSQQEQKJ@net.WAU.NL>
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I was kinda kidding, but serious: with the upcoming Palladium-technology (one of the reasons why I decided to look for a replacement for Window$ before get into the new stream of control comming up) I don't think it is a good idea to add .NET to, and develope .NET for FreeBSD, especially when it is only usefull for Open-Source applications. .NET is the first (or twenthieth or whatever) of series of Micro$ofts efforts to get control over the world market and to get a view of the way users use their PC. Palladium will be the next step and I think Micro$oft will make .NET fully Paladium-depended. I fear that when a .NET-implementation is added to the ports-collection of FreeBSD (and as a package for Linux or other Open-Source efforts) it will be used too much to develope cros-platform software. This will lead to the fact that even Open-Source users will then on the long term have to use this NET-implementation and become (again) under the control of Micro$ofts bugs. In other words, it may only tighten our freedom. On Wed, 09 Apr 2003, Chip Morton wrote: > Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 23:35:09 -0500 > To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> > From: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> > Subject: Re: .NET on FreeBSD > > In addition to the execution engine itself, the Shared Source CLI > include source code to practically every .NET tool that comes with the CLR (and > some that don't!) including complete C# and JScript® compilers and > portable versions of all the familiar .NET tools.... > I really think it could be very beneficial to FreeBSD (or any OS for that > matter) to have a fully functional .NET CLR environment. Not only would it > open up a load of Windows software developed to FreeBSD users, but it could > make FreeBSD a viable replacement for a Windows desktop or IIS server. In > other words, it could only broaden our market share.
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