DotGNU Project

DotGNU Project:

"The DotGNU project aims to be for webservices and for C# programs what GNU/Linux is rapidly becoming for desktop and server applications: the industry leader and provider of Free Software solutions.
Major motivations for being involved in DotGNU include:
A desire to prevent Microsoft from achieving monopolistic control of 'webservices', which might be similar to how around the end of the 20th century they had effective control of 'the desktop'. DotGNU addresses this danger by being compatible enough with .NET to make migration reasonably easy.
A technical interest in webservices, bytecode systems, and compiler construction.
A business strategy of using DotGNU, and contributing to DotGNU. DotGNU is part of GNU and thereby protected from coming under the control of any single company. "

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