Re: M$ vs. the world (was Re: C# SIG - blah blah blah)

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 11:09, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:41:59PM -0600, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > For once, we have a Freedomware effort that is trying to force a little
> > "compliance" on Microsoft by matching them, step by step, as they
> > develop their new platform.  Microsoft will still be Microsoft, and it's
> > difficult for the Mono team to "keep up" at times, but at least vendors
> > now have a "benchmark" to measure Microsoft against.
> 
> I still think the mistake here is caring about what M$ does to begin
> with.  As long as they write the rules, they will always win the game.
> 
> Maybe it is just the crowd I associate with, but it has been a long
> time since I saw anyone who actually cared what the M$
> scheme-of-the-day is.  This is a Good Thing.

I wish that were true at Scott AFB where I work with a web developer. We
can't go any longer than an hour between episodes where IE and Mozilla,
or different versions of IE, behave differently. The notion of
"Microsoft Standards" strikes me as meaningful as political sincerity.

On the other hand, under Miguel de Icaza's leadership, Mono is very
appealing. It has real cross-platform capabilities plus a much easier
programming environment than Java. I hear that ASP.net is a lot easier
than JSP. Any IDE that runs constant syntax, bounds & range checking
will score a lot of points. And being able to freely merge code segments
written in PHP.net, C#.NET, or even COBOL.NET allows you use whatever
language you feel strongly about to implement your share of code in a
group development.

I'm hoping that Novell will give Miguel the resources he needs to bring
Mono home properly.

--Doc


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