Linked by weildish on Tue 20th Jan 2009 02:13 UTC
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Agreed. While I do like C# as a language (which is a standard and could be implemented by anyone) I don't like the situation with Mono at all. Sure, Microsoft worked with them... this time. What about next time? And the time after that? There's no real advantage for Microsoft in making Mono and/or Moonlight fully comply with .NET and Silverlight. In fact, they have a good reason to keep them just that little bit out of date, the better to make it look less attractive to prospective developers and keep attracting them to Microsoft's platform but not appear they are doing so. It's actually a sound business move by MS, though it puts Mono in a very bad position.
It is the height of foolishness to hand your executioner the noose with which you are to be hanged, and I can't help but feel this is exactly what Novell has done with Mono.

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