[Mono-devel-list] Re: History Lesson : Mono was the first open source .net project? I dont think so.

[James Michael DuPont]

--- dietmar <dietmar at ximian.com> wrote:
> ------------------------------------------
> 1.1.1: In the beginning there was nothing
> 
> In the beginning there was nothing - approximately this was the
> situation until recently. In the meantime Mono developed with high
> speed, and the developers implemented more and more functions and
> classes.
> ----------------------------------------

[snip]

> > It must be embarassing to allow such mistaken history to be
> portrayed,
> > but it seems to be the InformationsPolitik of the Mono project.
> 
> What? The book does not claim that mono was first - where did you
> read
> that? 

I got the impression from the book that there was no other free dotnet
implementation, not that the code of the mono was zero to begin with. 

The author and publishers were suprised to hear about this issue at all
, and said they would change it. Obviously they think it is an issue.

I find the statements about pnet on the mono webpage less than
informative, and i think that there should be a more objective account
of the situation. 

mike 



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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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