Re: Gnome to be based on .NET?

[Crispin Wellington <crispin iinet net au>]

On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 16:22, Jürgen Salk wrote:
> "How much do you love Microsoft's .NET? Enough to
> trust your Gnome applications to its APIs in the
> future? 
> That's what Gnome leader Miguel de Icaza, believes
> should happen. Miguel calls .NET the "natural
> upgrade" for the Gnome platform [...]"
> 
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23919.html>
> 
> I am frankly a bit surprised to hear that. 
> Could someone please enlighten me, how this complies 
> with GNOME's self-conception of "an entirely free 
> desktop environment for free systems".

Theres a thread ATM on gnome-devel-list called "GNOME, .Net and Mono"
which you should read to get the deveopers position on this.

I think Miguel's getting free (as in price) and Free (as in freedom)
confused.

my 2c

Crispin