[ale] ximian and mono

[Timothy Ball]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:45:16PM -0400, Mel Burslan wrote:
> 
> Wondering if Miguel de Icaza has an under-the-covers deal from
> Microsoft. Otherwise, he may not have overlooked such an obvious threat
> to the project/community he is spearheading. Please read the article
> below if you have not already.
> 
> ========================================================
> NICHOLAS PETRELEY:   "The Open Source"    InfoWorld.com
> ========================================================
> 
> Ximian's effort reproduces only the development
> environment in open source. It does nothing to
> reproduce or replace Passport. The FAQ published by
> Ximian underlines the significance of Passport, even
> if it understates the consequences (see
> www.go-mono.com/faq.html). Because the Mono
> development environment has hooks for using Passport,
> people wonder whether their e-commerce applications
> will depend on Passport. The appalling answer winds up
> being, "We do not know at this time whether the
> Passport protocol is documented and whether we will be
> able to talk to passport.com."
> 
> Microsoft is already promoting Passport aggressively by
> making deals with the likes of American Express, eBay,
> and VeriSign, among dozens of other popular e-commerce
> sites. So for Mono to be of any use in developing
> open-source e-commerce applications, Mono will have to
> support Passport.

I saw and talk to Miguel at OLS last week... He's got it under control
.NET just makes it easy for everyone to deal. 

And as far as using passport there are several efforts to recreate that
functionality and you don't have to use winXX to run passport software,
IIRC there is an free software module for apache to do this. 

Less FUD and more code.

--timball

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