[O.T] Re: [smc-discuss] Gbrainy

[Rajeesh K Nambiar]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/5/22 Ashik S <aashiks at gmail.com>:
>> Re: Mono executable, it will run anywhere if you have a mono runtime.
>
> mono is just one of the many .Net runtimes. On Windows you can use
> either mono or Microsoft's .Net runtime. There is also Portable DotNet
> runtime from dotGNU project (Gopal V is a core developer of this
> project).
>
> But mono has developed some libraries which are not available in
> Microsoft .Net like gtk#, so if your application is written using gtk#
> then on Windows you will have to use mono.
>
> Microsoft has patents on .Net technology and you have no idea when
> they will sue someone. If you take pat example of FAT file system.
> They kept quite for many years till every body started using FAT (like
> in SD cards, USB sticks, Cameras, GPS devices). Once it is so common
> they filed case against a GPS company Tom Tom for using FAT file
> system implemented in linux kernel.

Things aren't any better - the next generation filesystem that will be
used by almost all such devices will be exFAT [1]. M$ sells it with
royalty charges in the order of millions. There's already an
implementation of exFAT driver for Linux kernel which works perfectly
so far, but no one knows whether it will be accepted in mainline or
when.

[1] http://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/thoughts-on-fat64exfat/
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Cheers,
Rajeesh
http://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com

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