From: "Kevin Walzer" <k...@codebykevin.com> > On 5/22/11 3:44 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: >> Somebody told that C# and Objective C are good languages. They might be >> good, but they are proprietary, and not only that they are proprietary, but >> they need to be ran under platforms that cannot be used freely, so from the >> freedom point of view, Perl, Ruby, Python and Java are the ways to go. > > Proprietary? > > Licensing options for C# in its Mono (Free Platform) implementation: > > http://www.mono-project.com/Licensing > > Licensing options for Objective-C in its GNUStep (Free Platform) > implementaiton > > http://www.gnustep.org/information/aboutGNUstep.html > > It may be true that these languages are more widely used on their > originating platforms (Windows, OS X) than on Linux, but these > implementations are definitely open source.
Exactly, this is why I said that it matters only the distributions used by the most users. Octavian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
