Learn About Ximian and Gnome From Nat Friedman 204
This week's interview guest is Nat Friedman, co-founder and vice president of product development for Ximian. Nat is also co-chair of The Gnome Foundation, and an all-around nice guy. Post your questions (one per post, please) for Nat below. We'll forward 10 of the highest-moderated ones to him, and will post his answers (verbatim except for HTML formatting) within the next week.
Re:Nautilus (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Mono and Windows compatibility (Score:3, Insightful)
I realize that in attempting to douse extravagant claims for Mono is like persuading the tide to reverse itself, but for the record:
Mono does not significantly contribute to the development of cross-platform software since the main Windows APIs (WebForms, Windows Forms, Dotnet ADO etc.) are not standardized, and Ximian has no plans to implement them. The standardized classes make up about 120 of the 1200 or so Dotnet classes used for building Windows apps.
A much better approach would be to take the Java VM and work with that - IBM is already working on a GTK port of the SWT graphics library, for example.