Well, the problem is, that .NET is owned by Microsoft and (partly?) available under a shared-source-license that allows to see the code, but not to use it. Microsoft has patents on .NET and even if Mono is free - it implements .NET and there might be problems if Microsoft decides to use their patents against mono-users/programmers.<br>
Unfortunately so called "open standards" doesn't mean open-source - it means you can get a license for using Microsoft's ECMA-standardized functions for a "adequate" fee.<br>You may want to read this: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)#Mono_and_Microsoft.E2.80.99s_patents">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)#Mono_and_Microsoft.E2.80.99s_patents</a><br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/1/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Shannon</b> <<a href="mailto:shannon.timothy@gmail.com">shannon.timothy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm a .net developer professionally, so I prefer to develop in Mono as a hoby.<br><br>But why do you say Mono hates freedom? I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that mono is an ECMA open standard, and all of the compilers and tools are all open source. Microsoft's compilers and tools of course aren't open source, but we're not talking about .net on Windows, we're talking about mono on Linux.<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 1, 2008 11:10 AM, Brandon Kruse <<a href="mailto:admteamkruz@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">admteamkruz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I am not bashing on enthusiasm, but why do you guys chose to develop<br>in a language that hates freedom?<br><br>Especially on this platform :/<br><br>--------------------------------<br><font color="#888888">Brandon Kruse (bkruse)<br>
</font><div><div></div><div><br>On Feb 1, 2008, at 9:34 AM, "Jae Stutzman" <<a href="mailto:jaebird@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jaebird@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>> We are developing for OpenMoko within mono. So far so good! We are<br>
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