Two More on Mono: de Icaza on Why it Pays to Embrace .NET

Jul 10, 2001, 03:00 (97 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Andrew Orlowski)

[ Thanks to Doug Bostrom for the link. ]

Miguel de Icaza discusses the pros of embracing .NET with The Register: "

".NET solves a number of problems we've been trying to solve in GNOME," he told us today. "Instead of wasting our time trying to create a new standard we're embracing .NET and extending it for our own purposes."

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Readers who just can't get enough of Mono can also take a look at CNET's summary of today's .NET-related FSF announcements.

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