| Moogle? (Wednesday, 23 April 2003) |
| Just in case anyone at Microsoft is listening... (Wednesday, 23 April 2003) |
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I want .NET on Linux, Solaris and MacOS X. We need non-Windows clients
for SourceGear Vault. We know how to write good cross-platform C++ code,
but now that we've had a taste of C#, we don't want to do that anymore. It
would be much easier if you would just make our managed code portable.
To be more specific:
- From our perspective, the client is the only part that needs to be
cross-platform. We're happy running the server forever on Windows
2000/2003/2008.
- I would settle for a subset of the Framework if that makes the decision
easier. Even if you left out Windows Forms, it would be very useful.
- Yes, we would be willing to pay money. If we linked the .NET runtime
into our app, we could just pay a royalty for every copy we sold.
Even better, why not license the .NET runtime to other OS vendors the same
way you license Windows to PC vendors? You get $100 or so for every
Windows license, right? If you can get that same $100 from a Linux or
MacOS user who wants to run .NET apps, why not?
PS. Yes, I know about Rotor. The problem is that I can't ship
Rotor with my app. I'm not personally interested in research or studying
the way the CLR functions. I just want to ship a cross-platform product
and I want .NET to be my cross-platform solution.
PPS. Yes, I know about Java. Don't get me started. 
PPPS. Yes, I know about Mono. This solution looks promising,
but it's not mature enough yet to run even the Vault command-line client.
Not yet.
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