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[Jonathan Pryor]

You might try looking at the presentations available from:

	http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/

The presentations are in OpenOffice.org Impress format.

In particular, ETH.sxi lists the start date and the number of
contributors.  Granted, this information is out of date (from last
November), but I doubt that it's changed substantially.

To answer your questions:

> How many people are working on Mono?

>From the above presentation, "~100 contributors, ~30 very active."  That
was last November, so the numbers may be different.

> How long has the project been going on?

Also from the above presentation, the project was started July 2001, so
it has been going on for ~20 months.

> What are the obligations of an organization using the Mono .Net runtime & 
> libraries in an enterprise application?

The obligations depend upon what they use.  The obligations are listed at:

	http://www.go-mono.com/index.html#Jan28,2002

In short the class libraries are X11 licensed (similar to the BSD
license), so anyone can use them and change them without worry.

The runtime libraries are LGPL, so you can ship proprietary applications
linked against Mono.

The Compilers and utilities (varies by utility) are GPL.

 - Jon

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 07:23, Peter Bosch wrote:
> Hi, guys.
> 
> I have been working on a .Net simulation engine for a long time, and will be 
> presenting an article on it at the Winter Simulation Conference in December. 
> I want to discuss the enterprise implications of using the engine on Linux 
> using Mono, and wondered if I could ask a few questions to fill out the 
> details in my article.
> 
> How many people are working on Mono?
> How long has the project been going on?
> What are the obligations of an organization using the Mono .Net runtime & 
> libraries in an enterprise application?
> (There are, I understand, questions about ASP.Net, ADO.Net and WinForms - 
> I'll discuss them, but only briefly...)
> 
> Thanks.
> Peter Bosch
> Highpoint Software Systems
> E-mail : Peter@Bosch.Net
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