[Mono-list] Question for Mono Programmers: Why is Open Source So Gung-Ho About a MS Product?

[Zaphod]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 04:54:12PM -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> You should adopt good ideas no matter where they come from.  For
> example, the .NET Framework is a really nice idea, but the .NET Passport
> is a really bad one.

Does mono have something like Passport ? (ie PassportIdentity class,somewhere
in System.Web ?) . Will mono have a server side Passport/Similar framework
for XSP as well as client classes ?

> We adopt the good ideas, we do not adopt the bad ones.

Microsoft has done the same as well (Ref: Java => C#) ;-)