Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:32:23 -0500 (CDT) From: brian@psys.org To: FST777@phreaker.net Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .NET on FreeBSD Message-ID: <45686.4.17.250.5.1049981543.squirrel@webmail.psys.org> In-Reply-To: <0HD400JSQQEQKJ@net.WAU.NL> References: <0HD400JSQQEQKJ@net.WAU.NL>
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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/
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