From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2002-02-15T12:23:03+09:00
Subject: RE: Ruby and .NET

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> The Java bytecode has a published spec, .NET bytecode has been largely 
> reverse engineered and MS makes no commitment other than to themselves. 
> Just like those undocumented API issues that used to plague Windows 
> developers.

C# and the CLR have been submitted to ECMA; Java is controlled entirely by Sun,
who pays a great deal of lip-service to open source but ultimately interested
in selling big server hardware.

There's some useful info here that might clear up misunderstandings about .net:

http://www.go-mono.com/index.html



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