[ale] best cross platform development evironment

[Lightner, Jeff]

Since you decided to restart the argument...

 

What you say is a bit disingenuous.   C# wasn't designed by a
consortium.  It was designed and patented by M$.   You only have a
"promise" from M$  that is based on vague conditions for using it free.
So long as you're big and bad enough and have enough money to fight the
lawsuits (like say Oracle or IBM) you should have no qualms using it.
If however, you're like most people and would go bankrupt just trying to
meet the disclosure requirements a M$ lawyers might inundate you with in
a suit then you'd be foolish indeed to blithely ignore the "promise" and
its vagueness of conditions.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Michael Trausch
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 1:05 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] best cross platform development evironment

 

That's a shame. It is a very well designed language on a relatively
pleasant to work in common runtime. As I have said many times in the
past, C# is proof that Microsoft should have stayed in the field of
programming languages. They are capable of creating good things... just
not operating systems or application software.

In any event, implementing in C# is something that is an option if your
requirements only go so far as requiring a free software stack. If you
have requirements that go beyond that... well, all I can say is that I
should hope in the interest of professionalism that the decision isn't
political.  Saying "I won't use C# because it was designed by a
consortium of companies that included Microsoft" hasn't the ability to
hold water when all the facts are considered.

As an aside, I seem to recall that Microsoft has had a hand in designing
some of the protocols and systems that we use today. Are you going to
avoid the use of btrfs because Oracle is a sponsor of it as well?
Looking through just RFCs alone, there is an awful lot of tech that both
companies have their hands in, both outright and through acquisitions
and so forth... will you avoid those, too, because of a name?

If there were any proof whatsoever to back the numerous assertions that
have been made about the "closed" nature of the CLR and C# then I would
be inclined to understand such a position. But being a fan of logical
argument, I cannot say that I understand what amounts to an ad hominem,
even if the target of the ad hominem is as (un)likable as our federal
government.

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