From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 06:32:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D6137B401 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 06:32:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monet.psys.org (monet.psys.org [64.81.145.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 595F643F93 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 06:32:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from www-data@psys.org) Received: from www-data by monet.psys.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 193cAB-0000TU-00; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:32:23 -0500 Received: from 4.17.250.5 (SquirrelMail authenticated user brian) by webmail.psys.org with HTTP; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:32:23 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <45686.4.17.250.5.1049981543.squirrel@webmail.psys.org> In-Reply-To: <0HD400JSQQEQKJ@net.WAU.NL> References: <0HD400JSQQEQKJ@net.WAU.NL> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:32:23 -0500 (CDT) From: brian@psys.org To: FST777@phreaker.net X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.4.0 RC1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Sender: www-data cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .NET on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: sobolak@myrealbox.com List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:32:32 -0000 Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek said: > > 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. > That's one way of looking at it. Another is that if .NET becomes somewhat of a standard due to implementations on other platforms, Microsoft's control could be broken. I agree with Chip though - there are scads of VB programs out there that only run on Windows. Being able to run that code on FreeBSD would be a huge benefit. brian -- Brian Sobolak http://www.planetshwoop.com/