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0 pointsjmillikin13y ago0 comments

Mono was banned from Microsoft's development conference (see http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2005/Sep-06.html), and faced various sorts of legal threats regarding their implementation of .NET libraries not covered by the ECMA standards process (most notably ASP.NET).

Samba benefited from Microsoft's documentation because Microsoft was forced to disclose it by court order.

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elemeno13y ago· 1 in thread

Since Mono still seems to be going strong and seems to be one of the official platforms for F#, I'm not sure that something that happened seven years ago is necessarily great proof that they're smothering Mono.

fpgeek13y ago

It's proof that Microsoft's intentions towards Mono aren't dependable. They can (and have) changed dramatically, whenever Microsoft wants. Exactly how friendly do you think Microsoft will be if Mono stops being .NET's toehold in non-Microsoft mobile OSes?

crag13y ago

Ahhh 2005? Com'on. Much has changed at MS these days. Except licensing. Which is a nightmare to figure out. But MS isn't the only company with that shame.

skeletonjelly13y ago

You're living in the past maan.

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