Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Forum

I'm not sure why CodeWeavers is not actively pursuing compatibility with .Net. Very quickly it will be impossible to run Windows applications without the ability to use the .Net library. The only reason that I can think of is possible problems with the .Net license that might not allow it to run on a non-Windows platform.

I doubt there is a licensing issue. Microsoft is very clear that the .NET framework (including CLR, et. al) can be licensed and distributed on any computing platform. I'm sure microsoft charges a fee for this license, and maybe that is the rub. But from a legal standpoint, there is no issue. Microsoft is encouraging implementation of .NET on other platforms, though so far there are no commercial implementations available for any non-Windows platform that I am aware of.

It is a resource issue. We are still just trying to get apps from 2003 working as gold. Everyone here is crazy busy with our existing apps and bugs.

We will get to it eventually, we understand how many apps are going towards .NET.

Jeremy Newman wrote:

It is a resource issue. We are still just trying to get apps from
2003 working as gold. Everyone here is crazy busy with our existing
apps and bugs.

We will get to it eventually, we understand how many apps are going
towards .NET.

Jeremy:

I work in industry and I can state that if you want to get Access past 2000 and any part of Office 2007 to work, parts (if not all) of the .NET API will have to be implemented somewhere. I am very upset with the folks at Wine and Mono for not figuring out a method to incorporate the Mono work on .NET into Wine. I've been down the 'road' of two teams not working together towards a common goal and the results is that a full on team of over twenty developers are trying to redo the work of about five or so. I'm hoping this is not the case with incorporating .NET functionality, at least at the basic level for Crossover.