> If I were in Microsoft's shoes I would be inclined to think Mono is actually beneficial to MS.
It is. It creates a lot of potential targets for the mother of all patent lawsuits (IIRC, the community promise only covers the ECMA standard). Don't forget that, when Microsoft exits a market, it still owns a lot of patents in that space and can thus act like an NPE.
> they will discover that Mono is inferior to "real" .Net.
FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD. Come now, has MS acted against Mono in any way, ever? They've helped them at every step, directly. I know you like to troll MS-related threads, but really man.
Would it be if it succeeded grabbing market share from Windows? Definitely.
I fail to see your reasoning equaling "something didn't happen" with "something can't ever happen and you are a lunatic for believing it can".
And I know I get downvoted every time I point this out. Reminding people Microsoft never plays nice only makes me unpopular, but it doesn't make me wrong.
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> If I were in Microsoft's shoes I would be inclined to think Mono is actually beneficial to MS.
It is. It creates a lot of potential targets for the mother of all patent lawsuits (IIRC, the community promise only covers the ECMA standard). Don't forget that, when Microsoft exits a market, it still owns a lot of patents in that space and can thus act like an NPE.
> they will discover that Mono is inferior to "real" .Net.
OTOH, it runs on far superior OSs ;-)
FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD. Come now, has MS acted against Mono in any way, ever? They've helped them at every step, directly. I know you like to troll MS-related threads, but really man.
Why would they? Is Mono a serious threat? No.
Would it be if it succeeded grabbing market share from Windows? Definitely.
I fail to see your reasoning equaling "something didn't happen" with "something can't ever happen and you are a lunatic for believing it can".
And I know I get downvoted every time I point this out. Reminding people Microsoft never plays nice only makes me unpopular, but it doesn't make me wrong.