[Gambas-user] Gambas has competition now

[Leonardo Miliani]

Rob ha scritto:
> http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/03/17/monodevelop-1-0-officially-released
> 
> ( http://xrl.us/bhs3j in case the link breaks )
> 
> The fruits of Novell's unholy alliance with Microsoft have finally 
> reached 1.0, making it the second Free BASIC IDE with GUI designer to 
> reach production status (after Gambas), and the first with the 
> promise of cross-platform abilities.  
> 
> I don't think I would touch this with a ten foot pole due to the 
> likelihood that Microsoft will start looking for money from Mono 
> developers in a couple years, SCO-style, but I have no doubt that 
> some organizations will use it.  I also just think that Gambas as a 
> language is better designed than VB.NET, let alone C#.
> 
> I also think that anyone who is contributing or plans to ever 
> contribute to the Gambas IDE, compiler/interpreter or components 
> should refrain from downloading MonoDevelop.  It seems likely to me 
> that Microsoft or one of its sock puppets would someday try to use 
> that as evidence that Gambas developers were ripping off MonoDevelop 
> or Mono in general.
> 
> Something to keep in mind.
> 
> Rob
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I dislike Mono.
It's a porting of a closed programming environment for a free system.
Microsoft ever claimed (before and after the joint-venture with Novell)
that Mono is a try of reverse-engineering and I have to grant with this
point of view.

If you use Linux I assume that you're looking for an opensource system
and want to use free languages. But if you have to use a non-free
environment (.Net is Microsoft patent) you could use Windows, don't you?

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Ciao.
Leo.

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