One of the things you will find within the opensource community is a large resistance to being told what tools to use.
Right. That is one of the reasons that Mono has become one of the most successful open source projects. Once you have the .NET Framework (which does not need anything Microsoft), besides the free Microsoft C# compiler, and the Microsoft Visual C++, Visual Basic, Jscript languages, you have several third-party languages ported or being ported to .NET including Delphi, Eiffel, Cobol, APL, Perl, Python, Smalltalk, as well as research languages such as Haskell, ML, Oberon, Scheme and Mercury. You can create objects in any language and use them in any other. That's freedom!
Yes, the main drawback for .NET is that it is forward looking. Any platform that never got a Java VM probably won't get a .NET Framework. Virtually everything else will.
Think about how much development effort is spent on UI issues for Sword. In .NET, any visual component in any language can be used in any other. With .NET the UI effort would be pooled and reused, not reinvented several times over. What can take you into the future and give the best software for the most people? Anyway, I would encourage people to do some reading about .NET and make up their own mind. I will now get off my soapbox :-)
-John
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