Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>> Er... Mono is an free reimplementation of M$ proprietry technology 
> 
> It's not proprietary any more. It's an ECMA standard. Certainly the part 
> that Mono implements is.

The way I heard it, the ECMA standard (ISO also? maybe?) doesn't cover 
everything in the M$ .NET framework implementation. But without knowing 
what is and isn't inside, it's hard to say how important that is...

>> Isn't that like complaining that including a free Java implementation 
>> is "crippling the system with Sun IP"?
> 
> Yeah, but people don't irrationally hate Sun. :-)

No - when people hate Sun it's completely rational. :-D Like the square 
root of the product of 3 distinct primes...

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