On 11 July 2012 12:24, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz > <mmarzantowicz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> What is the difference and what is wrong in being cross-platform? > > There is nothing wrong with being cross-platform. > You must have misread, or misunderstood what I tried to say. > > I said that WINE is useful for running Windows apps that might not be > available on Linux. > > I also said that WINE serves that niche, but doesn´t try to "infect" > Linux apps (ie Mono hooks in Gnome). > I think you keep misunderstanding the provision of language bindings. This is a bit like saying Python or Perl are trying to infect gnome because they have bindings. Major mono apps in Gnome: F-spot - deprecated for Shotwell. Tomboy - gone Beagle - dead Mono provision in Wine is a different matter altogether, that's using Mono (open source) to provide a replacement .Net (closed source) runtime for windows applications as part of the functionality of Wine. There you may as well say their replacements for MFC are trying to infect linux. MS may well have wanted to push Mono in an attempt to gain a bit of control over the Linux sector, but if they did then that attempt failed several years ago. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
