Please Microsoft, Stop Holding .NET Back!

WillemM

Personally I think the open-source community is doing a great job with mono. Although it's always a bit behind on the most recent .NET framework implementation of microsoft. It's great nonetheless :D What I'm saying with this that .NET is not multi-platform, but Microsoft did provide developers with the means and documentation to make it multi-platform.

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Shog9 0

Doesn't interest me. Now, i'd love to see the .NET platform open-sourced. Let the Linux people port it to Linux, the Mac people port it to MacOS, etc. And yeah, i'm talking proper open source where folks can freely view, build and modify it, not the weird licensing and lineage of Rotor. Do i think we'll ever see such a thing? Not a chance. But Mono is cool...

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Judah Gabriel Himango

Shog9 wrote:

i'd love to see the .NET platform open-sourced.

I'd go for that. I mean, given tools like reflector, we can already see the source. :)

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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

This comment[^] explains it very well, IMHO.

Microsoft has never created any product without lock-in.

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Doesn't interest me.

Muammar

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Joe Woodbury

That's patently and fully demonstrably not true. I've moved documents from Word to WordPerfect and back again. I've move C/C++/Assembler code between compilers and IDEs. I've moved my bookmarks to FireFox (use both for various reasons.) I'm 100% sure I could move my money files to Quicken without any loss. About the only files I've never attempted to move are PowerPoint, but that's because I've only done one PowerPoint presentation and all the competing products suck badly.

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Dave Kreskowiak

I can't see the link because the page won't load, but, I get the feeling that whoever wrote something along the lines of "Microsoft is holding the .NET Framework back!!" is utter crap. The ".NET Framework" is Microsoft implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure which is an international standard, both ECMA and ISO approved. Even though it's an invention that Microsoft/HP/Intel created, it's open for anyone to implement on any platform they want. Microsoft isn't holding it back. The industry just hasn't picked up the ball and done anything with it, other than Mono of course. There's probably some other, smaller, implementations that I don't know about running around though. Since it's a standard that anyone can implement, who's really holding anything back?

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Joe Woodbury wrote:

That's patently and fully demonstrably not true. I've moved documents from Word to WordPerfect and back again.

The Word format is proprietary and not documented.

Joe Woodbury wrote:

I've move C/C++/Assembler code between compilers and IDEs.

The Windows API is a lock-in.

Joe Woodbury wrote:

I've moved my bookmarks to FireFox (use both for various reasons.)

Oh, great! One point for you. Of course IE had ActiveX and future versions will have XAML.

Joe Woodbury wrote:

I'm 100% sure I could move my money files to Quicken without any loss. About the only files I've never attempted to move are PowerPoint, but that's because I've only done one PowerPoint presentation and all the competing products suck badly.

Because someone reverse-engineered proprietary formats?