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Wednesday Mar 17, 2004

This just in.

Comments[3] by Dave in General

Deadlines still suck - so get the coffee brewing, it's gonna be a late night.

ECMA Standard C# - a clever trap set by Microsoft.

Comments[0] by Dave in Microsoft
Havic Pennington: Microsoft has set a clever trap by standardizing the core of the CLI and C# language with ECMA, while keeping proprietary the class libraries such as ASP.NET and XAML. There's the appearance of an open managed runtime, but it's an incomplete platform, and no momentum or standards body exists to drive it to completion in an open manner. Many interesting class libraries are clearly encumbered by Microsoft IP and nobody concerned about legal liability will want to ship them. The core may also be encumbered, though that remains uncertain.

Aside from IP issues, Microsoft controls the .NET platform. They will always be ahead, and it will always be tuned for Windows. This is the wrong direction for free software, if we want to win the war, and not only some battles.

That's from an interesting article by Havoc Pennington of the GNOME project, who is currently considering a move from C/C++ to Java or C#. Found via JRoller blogger Emil Eifrem

JSR-241: Groovy!

Comments[0] by Dave in Links

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