Mono is available under GPL, so it could be included in FC, right? But Java's license does not allow it to be included in FC distribution... That is more to the point of why I asked. Unless I have misunderstood something.... Ian -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Philip A. Chapman Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 6:32 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Mono in FC3 On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 16:49, Atlantic Works - I.T. & Multimedia wrote: > With the reluctance of Sun to "Open Source" Java, Mono seems a viable > alternative. (.Net for Linux) > Perhaps Mono is a viable alternative to Java for development on Linux. However, I do not think Sun's reluctance to open source Java makes it so. Mono is not Microsoft's version open sourced. It is an open source implementation. There are open source implementations of Java as well. >From the standpoint of open source, they are pretty much equal footing. I submit that Sun has provided readily available (and up to date) versions of Java which run on Linux. Microsoft has not given that level of support; nor do I believe that they will. Before you assume that I am flaming, note in my signature below that I regularly develop on Microsoft platforms using Microsoft products as well as on Linux (using non-Microsoft products, or course). I am currently evaluating mono simply because I have clients that insist that their solutions be developed using .Net products, and I prefer to develop on Linux. -- Philip A. Chapman Application Development: Java, Visual Basic (MCP), PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL Linux, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
