[Pc_Support] Quote of the day: "Microsoft making Office open source"

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 02:22 -0500, Justin M. Keyes wrote:
> What do you mean by "incomplete" specification for .NET? The fact that
> they didn't include the SDK (ASP.NET, ADO.NET, etc.) ?

No, there are various aspects of the architecture that Mono has
implemented that are not in the ECMA spec.  Miguel and others talked
about this in an interview a year ago.  Without various support they've
added outside of the ECMA, Mono programs won't run on Windows.  They
maintain a strict separation between the ECMA and non-ECMA components so
they can do without the latter if it becomes that legal issue.

That's one the reasons Red Hat has some legal concerns about with Mono
(which I still think are overblown).

I'll try to dig up the interview I read that in.  It also pointed to a
FAQ.

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Bryan J. Smith   b.j.smith at ieee.org   http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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