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[Liam Proven]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can you explain, please?
>>
>> Mono is the open-source version of .NET. The Sims is a Windows game
>> that runs natively on Windows so it doesn't need Mono, it can use real
>> native .NET.
>>
>> .NET is not going away; developers can use that in safety, so long as
>> they are content to be on a proprietary platform - which games
>> companies actively like, by and large.
>>
>> Concerns about Mono are basically irrelevant to devs on Windows.
>
> You missed the Mac part. The Sims 3 runs on MacOS as well and uses
> Mono for scripting game events, I believe on both platforms :)

Aahh. That I did not know.

Still, for the chance to knife Linux if it came up, at the cost of
pissing off EA & inconveniencing another MS rival, I think they'd take
it like a shot.

I use the word "knife" as that is official MS terminology. As in the
famous meant-to-be-off-the-record quote when negotiating with AOL:
"what do we have to do to get you to knife Netscape?" Bear in mind
that at this point, AOL was a shareholder in Netscape. But it did as
MS wanted, embedded IE into the official AOL client for Mac as well as
Windows, and did not directly support /its own product/.

MS, of course, was not prosecuted for that particular bit of
back-stabbing treachery. Other companies that MS has knifed include
Adobe, Apple, Stac, IBM, Lotus, Wordperfect, Digital Research, Central
Point and more besides. Some of these lived. Some you have possibly
never heard of, but they were all big at one time before MS decided
they were a threat.

At the moment, Linux is the biggest single threat to MS. If they can
find a way to hurt or kill the FOSS world, believe me, they will.

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