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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by spiderPig on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @07:53PM (#7181265)
Ah just so they have access to the vast resources and become 1st party libraries. Mono is not known in most of the linux world and Microsoft support would be a significant boost. Businesses would also be hesitant to support it adopt it unless Microsoft is backing the platform.
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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by Demiurge on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @08:03PM (#7181297)
Microsoft supporting Mono would not be a good boost in the eyes of most Linux people, as far as I can tell. In fact, Miguel de Icaza connections to Microsoft have been cited as an argument against Mono.
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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by girvo on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @03:06AM (#7182514)
The fact that Mono is a reimplementation of something Microsoft did actually went against it for a lot of *nix people. Which is dumb and stupid, but hey, after Embrace Extend Extinguish, everyone got kinda jumpy. So, Microsoft purchasing it would be a hard sell, IMO.
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