Why Mono is significant

Posted by dave on Jul 19, 2004 5:42 PM EDT
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Mono is an open source implementation of the .Net development framework as developed by Microsoft and submitted to the ECMA standards authority. The project, which released version 1.0 last month, is significant in several ways: it offers the potential to unite the open source communities for Windows, Linux, and other platforms; it fulfills the niche for a powerful migration tool; it builds upon existing open source technologies such as Mozilla and Apache; and -- most importantly -- it illustrates the resolve of the open source community to rise to Microsoft's challenge.

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exactly my argument at JavaOne mojavelinux 0 1,577 Jul 20, 2004 5:54 AM

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