[Mono-devel-list] Re: How can Mono Existing if WinFX, Avalon, Indigio and Aero comes up with Longhorn and WinXP?

Carlos Alberto Cortez carlos at unixmexico.org
Mon Sep 13 23:02:13 EDT 2004


Hi,

It looks like you are a Java coder, that read some news and notes it and
there, believed all the MS words, was afraid because Java *could* be
deprecated and tried to make us believe the ideas you want to believe in
order to think that Java will *success over Mono*.

I mean, Mono is just an option out there, if you don't like this, good,
but don't come to just tell us why in you opinion in bad, and using bad
reasons (only refering to MS notes here and there). 

Just as you have listened, bring technical questions or issues. 

If you want to believe Java is better than Mono, good. We don't want to
hear it in a development list.

Carlos.

El lun, 13-09-2004 a las 19:45, falkmilan at yahoo.de escribió:
> Iam amusing.
> 
> If you dont like Microsoft (like i do) why do you working side by side 
> on a Port
> of its strategic Core Product?
> 
> You are a littlte bit masochistic??
> 
> Iam not a Microsoft Lawyer and iam only develop Software in C/C++ and 
> Java on all
> Platforms my customers asking me for to write Software.
> 
> After 10 Years Software Development in C/C++ and x86 Assembler  and SQL 
> there to many
> poor things on DOS and Windows Platforms  and Java helps me to forget 
> all this nastig
> Things.
> 
> In Java i have a Virtual Machine and inside this my Programm works fin 
> on every OS where
> a Virtual Machine is present. What should i say, it works fine for me 
> and i have no Trouble with it.
> 
> Ad it is Source Open but not OpenSource and i feel really better if Java 
> dont wanna OpenSource,
> then any People can criple Java and the compatibility is blown away.
> 
> Better for me i have checked and certified JVM (exceptionally the 
> Blackdown OpenSource Project)
> SUN checks Blackdown also but for zero costs as tribute to OpenSource.
> 
> > You know.
> >
> > After 20 years in IT you know what the biggest mistake of all is?
> >
> > It's getting all twisted over a bunch of Micrsoft Vaporware with lots 
> > of pretty names.
> >
> > Microsoft uses this technique to disparge and thwart people who are 
> > way ahead of it in terms of programming and technology.
> >
> > They hear these words like 'Avalon' and they assume 'oh these 
> > Microsoft guys are so smart -- why bother'
> >
> > But, in the end, M$ never releases half of what it says...and at the 
> > point that the other guy drops his spear in the sand, M$ definitely 
> > doesn't expend the energy to develop it.
> >
> > So, in the end the develop gets thwarted, the users never get the 
> > functionality, and Microsoft can charge people money without having 
> > done any work.
> >
> > Let's just keep going with mono, gtksharp and so on.
> >
> > 99.9999 percent of what 'LongWait' is can, and is being built at the 
> > application level.
> >
> > And, with OSS and Linux, it can more easily push its way into the OS 
> > -- where appropriate.
> >
> > Don't be fooled by Microsoft Tricksters and Trolls !
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >>
> >>      Avalon plans
> >>
> >> On the surface Avalaon seems like it uses something like 
> >> GdiPlus/Cairo for rendering. That was my initial feeling, but it 
> >> turns out that they had to rewrite everything to have a performing 
> >> rendering engine, and implement some very advanced rendering features 
> >> that include compositing with video streams, also their brushes seem 
> >> to be fairly powerful.
> >>
> >> XAML, a new markup language that binds tags to .NET classes was also 
> >> presented, but this is the least interesting part. A tiny compiler 
> >> translates the XAML source files into C# code. The whole process is 
> >> just like Glade, and should be easy to do.
> >>
> >> The really elaborate parts are the rendering engine, and the 
> >> composition model for widgets. It is a complete new toolkit, and if 
> >> we want to implement this one, we will have to have a new toolkit on 
> >> Unix, incompatible with everything else, maybe stressing the 
> >> importance of working with other open source projects in defining a 
> >> cross-toolkit theming strategy to address this particular problem.
> >>
> >> A Mini-Avalon is easy to do, but a complete one will require much 
> >> interaction with other groups: the Cairo folks are probably the most 
> >> qualified to assist us.
> >>
> >> Source:
> >> http://www.go-mono.com/mono-hacking-roadmap.html
> >>
> >> </snip>
> >>
> >>> I think it has been said that Aero would be easier to implement in 
> >>> Mono than 
> >>
> >> look at above, then you see the reality
> >>
> >>
> >> Falk
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