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Story: Microsoft 'bars' Mono from conferenceTotal Replies: 4
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TxtEdMacs

Sep 16, 2005
6:40 AM EDT 		to its advantage.
tadelste

Sep 16, 2005
6:45 AM EDT 		But they show up at Linux World to give us the facts.
TxtEdMacs

Sep 16, 2005
10:09 AM EDT 		What facts? True Facts? or is it False Facts or No Facts at all!
DrDubious

Sep 16, 2005
12:25 PM EDT 		Could it possibly be that going for the whole Microsoft "C#" thing and jumping on the .NET bandwagon wasn't necessarily a great idea?

On the other hand, I suppose it had to be tried. Thankfully, the FOSS community has a lot more diversity to work with, so if it turns out this one attempt to get in bed with Microsoft's design is a bust, it's not as though we don't have numerous free-and-open alternatives to work with instead.
TxtEdMacs

Sep 16, 2005
2:18 PM EDT
Quoting: "Microsoft 'bars' Mono ..."


How do you think Microsoft will play this one, if or when they backtrack due to negative publicity?

Quoting: [made up!] Wow! What did I know, I just thought they were contagious and all!


Sounds reasonable to me.

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