Tue, 28 Jan 2003
Miguel De Icaza's In The Spotlight
MSNBC reports on the progress made by Miguel de Icaza's Ximian team working on Mono, the open source implementation of microsoft.net. Could Ximian finally be headed for the mainstream? It's an interesting question. I'm not sure how much progress will be made until a massive educational effort is made with regard to helping the movers and shakers comprehend what it means to use, if not embrace and extend, GPL'ed software. I hear conversations on a daily basis in which decision makers make ill-informed and costly strategic blunders based on misinformation about the technology licensing implications. That's unfortunate, but it's going to remain a limiting factor for free software (particularly going beyond the installed hacker base) until an effective campaign is developed.
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