The Penguin takes flight [Business 2.0]
Dec 6, 2002 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — viewsThis article at Business 2.0 magazine provides background and perspective on Mono, an open source project (led by Miguel de Icaza of Ximian Inc.) to create a GPL, Linux-compatible alternative to Microsoft's .NET Framework. Erick Schonfeld writes . . .
“Mono [is] perhaps the most ambitious project the open-source world has taken on since Linux itself . . .”
“For the last 18 months, Icaza and five other Ximian-paid coders around the globe — including one partially blind programmer in Padua, Italy — have directed the work of more than 120 volunteers. They've begun creating an open-source version of the .Net Framework, using only the technical specifications for it that Microsoft made public nearly two years ago . . .”
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