From: Mike N. 

On Tue, 24 May 2005 10:51:06 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote:

>An amazing example of this,
>and probably one unanticipated by Microsoft, is that a team is hoping to
>implement enough of .NET on Linux so that a .NET program could run on
>Windows or on Linux.

  I'll bet not entirely unanticipated. It's a losing proposition because
Microsoft is churning out new APIs at a rate that will forever leave the
Linux implementations a generation behind.  ADO.NET 1.x -> ADO.NET 2.x
as an example.

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