From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-10-24T05:37:05+09:00
Subject: Re: IronRuby...will it be like J++?

On 10/23/07, John Lam (DLR) <jflam@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler [mailto:halostatue@gmail.com]:
> > I think the biggest risk to IronRuby is the CLR, not the IronRuby
> > implementation itself. As noted, that's in a reasonably open license.
> I'm interested in why you think that the CLR is a risk? We've standardized CLR via the CLI and there is an open-source implementation of the CLR in Mono. DLR / IronRuby should just run on Mono in binary form.

Long-term risk. Microsoft could change how the CLR works to penalize a
forked IronRuby, at least in theory.

-austin
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