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VIRTUALISATION Mono: Shielding the facts
VIRTUALISATION Mono: Shielding the facts | Mono: Shielding the facts |
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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Monday, 22 June 2009 | |
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Page 2 of 3 Some of the half-truths were pointed out by posters who reacted to the essay. Featured Whitepaper
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For example, Shields tries to belittle C as being a standard from a convicted monopolist, AT&T; he tries to equate this to Mono which implements a standard from Microsoft, also a convicted monopolist. In other words, what's to pick between two convicted monopolists? Neither is superior, right? But what he neglects to mention is that AT&T was convicted of monopoly practices with regard to its telephone network, not anything to do with software or C. Microsoft, as we all know, was convicted about its software. Shields makes a claim that Mono is hundreds of times faster than Python - but offers no benchmarks to back up this incredible claim. He makes no mention of the fact that Microsoft first tried to corrupt the Java standard and then, and then only, came up with C#. a language similar to Java. And, above all, he avoids mentioning the fact that .NET is wholly Microsoft technology and therefore the chances that it holds patents on the same is much higher than in the case of any other technology on which it claims to have patents. Shields makes reference to an iTWire article I wrote which outlined my efforts to obtain details about the much-touted royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory licence which Mono advocates say one can obtain in order to freely use the technology without fear of being stung. He did not offer any counter-arguments to what was written but rather tried, in one fell swoop, to use an adjective like curlish to dismiss it out of hand. This, of course, does not hide the fact that whenever one gets to specifics about this kind of licence, both de Icaza and Microsoft sing from the same hymnsheet - one that obscures the truth. Shields now appears to have joined the chorus. CONTINUED |
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