boycottnovell.com— This warning comes at a good time because Microsoft has doctored and begun spreading GNU/Linux-hostile licences.
Oct 5, 2008View in Crawl 4
That's kind of my point though. .NET is becoming the new defacto API for Windows apps, and a lot of especially new GNU/Linux users don't want to give up apps they're already familiar with. If Win32 gets phased out and .NET is what apps are written in, people will still want to run their Windows apps, at least until they find good or better Free alternatives. I don't believe dotGNU should be a primary focus of the free software community, but compatibility is important for GNU/Linux adoption. It'll be a different story when major software vendors treat GNU/Linux as an equal with Windows, and release native, feature equivilent versions of their apps for the "big three"
Nice words. It is too bad that the open source community does not have the vision to lead in many areas of computing and development and instead must follow the works of proprietary software development companies and build bridges to them instead of innovating and having them build bridges to the open source world.
rotyyuOct 6, 2008
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Closed AccountOct 6, 2008
That's kind of my point though. .NET is becoming the new defacto API for Windows apps, and a lot of especially new GNU/Linux users don't want to give up apps they're already familiar with. If Win32 gets phased out and .NET is what apps are written in, people will still want to run their Windows apps, at least until they find good or better Free alternatives. I don't believe dotGNU should be a primary focus of the free software community, but compatibility is important for GNU/Linux adoption. It'll be a different story when major software vendors treat GNU/Linux as an equal with Windows, and release native, feature equivilent versions of their apps for the "big three"
yodajonesOct 7, 2008
Nice words. It is too bad that the open source community does not have the vision to lead in many areas of computing and development and instead must follow the works of proprietary software development companies and build bridges to them instead of innovating and having them build bridges to the open source world.