Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 11 November 2005 11:23 am, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> There seems to be a misconception that the CLI, C#, and C++/CLI are owned
> by Microsoft.  This is not, AFAIK, the case.  These are ECMA standards. 
> Among the contributors to these standardization efforts is Novell Inc.
> This site has some links to the official specs:
> http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~sestoft/ecma/

Yes, the C# and CLI were submitted to the ECMA back in '01 or '02, fairly soon 
after they announced .net. They hoped that someone like Miguel would come 
along and write a competing product to VS.net so that they could say it was 
an "open" standard. 

I'm actually using this information in my arguments at work as to why we 
should move from VB to C# (as opposed to moving to VB.NET).   I have been 
patiently explaining that we could leverage the C# to run on our new 
mainframe (IBM z890) as back end or middleware while running C# clients on 
the desktops (mostly running Windows).



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