Mono, Moonlight: Patent Encumbered, Or Not?
If there is one technology in the Linux world that ruffles feathers whenever it’s mentioned, it’s Mono, the open source .Net clone. Since .Net comes out of Microsoft, and has some patents encircling...
View ArticleWhy Mono Doesn’t Suck
A Mono developer responds to a request for “a calm presentation of why Mono is desirable, why it is not a threat, and why it should be included in Ubuntu by default” answering the three questions...
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Stallman Warns of Mono… Right?
We’ve had a lot of debates recently on the merits – or dangers – of Mono. We’ve had troubles with how Microsoft views Mono and whether or not everyone is safe using it, but we also had a public...
View ArticleC#, CLI Under Community Promise, Mono Split in Half
We’ve already seen some heavy discussion on Mono and C# here on OSNews the past few weeks, as it became clear the patent situation regarding the ECMA parts of Mono was anything but faith inspiring....
View ArticleMono LLVM Compilation
Mono from SVN is now able to use LLVM as a backend for code generation in addition to Mono’s built-in JIT compiler. “This allows Mono to benefit from all of the compiler optimizations done in LLVM. For...
View ArticleFSF: Microsoft’s Community Promise “Empty”
As you would have guessed, the Mono debate is long from over. Two weeks ago, Microsoft extended its legally binding and perpetual community promise to cover the C# and CLI ECMA standards, which was...
View ArticleRMS: De Icaza Traitor to Free Software Community
If you don’t like personal, blog-style reporting, you might want to skip this item. A few days ago, during a speech at Software Freedom Day in Boston, Richard Stallman has, at least in my book, crossed...
View ArticleMono 2.6, MonoDevelop 2.2 Released
Mono 2.6 and MonoDevelop 2.2 have been released. “About nine months ago we released MonoDevelop 2.0 and Mono 2.4. Today we are releasing the much anticipated upgrades to both. Mono 2.6 and MonoDevelop...
View ArticleMoonlight 2 Released, Patent Deal Extended Beyond Novell
The Mono project has released Moonlight 2, the open source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight. Moonlight allows Silverlight content to run on platforms that do not have an official Silverlight...
View ArticleMono Project Delivers Moonlight 3.0 Preview
“The Mono Project releases the first preview of Moonlight 3.0, giving application developers a first look at the open-source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight 3 technology for the Linux...
View ArticleMono Applications Use Unsafe, Tainted Namespaces
For the most time, I’ve been firmly in the largest camp when it comes to the Mono debate – the ‘I don’t care’-camp. With patent lawsuits being hotter than Lady Gaga right now, that changed. For good...
View ArticleMiguel De Icaza Announces New Company
Two weeks ago we covered the news that the Mono development team were let go kicked out by the new owners of Novel, Attachmate, apparently to move operations to Germany. Miguel de Icazza, founder of...
View ArticleAndroid ported to C#
Wow. “One crazy idea that the team had at that dinner was to translate Android’s source code to C#. Android would benefit from C# performance features like structures, P/Invoke, real generics and our...
View ArticleMono 3.0 released
Miguel de Icaza, founder of Xamarin and lead developer of the Mono open-source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET platform, announced on his blog today that the third major revision of the Mono...
View ArticleMono 4.0 released
This is the first Mono release that contains code from Microsoft’s open sourced .NET code. We are only getting started with this work. We are swiftly moving ahead in mono/master much more code that is...
View ArticleIntroducing Mono on AIX and IBM i
You might have noticed this in the Mono 5.12 release notes, Mono now includes support for IBM AIX and IBM i; two very different yet (mostly!) compatible operating systems. This post should serve as an...
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