Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/02/and_then_there_were_two/
And then there were two open source .NET clones
Three's a crowd
Posted in Software, 2nd August 2001 09:35 GMT
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The first and original effort to make a software libre implementation of Microsoft's .NET runtimes is to join forces with one of the newcomers. Portable.NET will now co-ordinate its work with DotGNU, launched last month, under the GNU umbrella.
That other major project to create an open source platform for the Microsoft CLR, C# language and class libraries is Ximian's Mono project.
Let's hope the joined project work shows more inventiveness than went into creating the name: It'll be called "DotGNU Portable .NET". ®
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