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Mono Project Releases 2.0

People often think of open source as being purely a Linux and BSD thing. Perhaps they're aware of open source on OS X as well, but in general Windows is seen as hostile to open source. And at the heart of the hostility surely must be Microsoft's proprietary .NET framework, right? But no: the Mono Project provides a cross-platform, open source implementation of .NET. Version 2.0 was released this week, and it has matured into a serious development framework.


Linux, the Next Battleground for Closed Source Software Development

From the recent spate of open source project acquisitions by large software vendors to the increasingly popular model of offering paid ?enterprise? versions of open source software, we?ve all noticed the changes in the open source community. Some consider these trends part of the maturing of the open source software market, while others view these trends as potentially dangerous to fundamental open source concepts.

For those who are worried, things may have just gotten a little worse. Adobe?s announcement of its AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) platform for Linux is the case in point.



Mono and Moonlight

Last week Novell released version 1.9 of the Mono open source .NET framework as well as a new IDE called Monodevelop. The newest version of Mono now supports a number of the advanced features found in Microsoft?s .NET 3.0 framework.

While Mono and Novell, which sponsors the project, have been much maligned by various factions within the open source community, the overall impact Mono could have on Microsoft and the open source community could in fact be large.



Mono: Maturing, but Relevant?

The Mono Project has reached a couple of milestones recently: the release of version 1.0 of the MonoDevelop IDE, and the release of Mono 1.9, the beta for Mono 2.0. (Mono releases do not track .NET releases exactly, so Mono 2.0 will include a mix of features from .NET 2.0 and later versions). This advances the ability of open source developers to use the .NET platform, but how much does that matter?