[Mono-list] ".NET 3.0" misnomer

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> It is portable enough to be functional - without COM, without WinForms,
> without EnterpriseServices. You're missing the point here - if any crucial
> changes are made in 3.5 that rely on 3.0, all subsequent versions will no
> longer be portable. Also, you've trimmed out a crucial point in my message:
> the _whole_ of .NET 3.0 is incompatible.

Do you have any specifics --leaving all punditry aside, please-- or are
you just pre-emptively freaking out?

> Of course. Technically it has no effect for now. I spent all this energy
> knowing that it all boils down to marketing, and better marketing is what
> I'm arguing for. It's not entirely technical; perceptions can change on the
> part of Mono devs and users, and worse, they can also change within
> Microsoft itself. Then it'll really become technical.

I think I will start using colors to represent technologies, a play on
words on "mono, monochrome", so we could have "cyan", "magenta", "blue",
"yellow".

My main concern at this point is whether to choose additive or
subtractive colors for the naming.

Miguel.