Re: .NET Framework one of a kind and regaining M$ the programmers' trust?

From: Papadopoulos Giannis (ipapadop_at_inf.uth.gr)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:21:22 +0200

Chris Mantoulidis wrote:
> Now that i'm reading about .NET it seems like a good idea - one of
> M$'s few good ideas, but good. You can do some really cool stuff (from
> what I read) with .NET so it seems like this is a boost to M$'s
> popularity. I don't want to see M$ getting really popular to
> programmers, so I would like to confirm my fears by posting here.

It is a good idea, but there is also Java2 platform + JWSDP + Apache +
Tomcat +++++... So there is also an opponent, which is almost free...

> Since more and more are turning to .NET, it seems like M$ is regaining
> the programmers' trust (just guessing). Now that .NET is popular, I
> see a dotGNU project by the GNU team. Since M$ is the well known
> rip-off company here, I don't want GNU to get the same reputation by
> M$ .NET programmers: "Oh GNU is so hopeless it stole the .NET idea and
> make it dotGNU". I am sure GNU is better than M$, but copying M$ ideas
> shows nothing but the opposite...

GotGNU is not stealing ideas... It implements the basic components (that
are not MS copyrighted) and extend them...

> If .NET becomes popular, then this will be seriously bad for *NIX
> programmers isn't it?

Not necessarily... Miguel De Icaza (GNOME) said that GTK2 will be
rewritten in C#...

>
> Plz say my fears ain't correct and that .NET ain't so popular and that
> things are gonna stay as is (anti-M$).
>
> Thanks in advance,
> - cmad

MS is popular when it comes to middle-sized companies... Big companies
tend to have their own OS or custon-build linux... 

-- 
Giannis Papadopoulos
http://dop.users.uth.gr/
University of Thessaly
Computer & Communications Engineering dept.

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