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From: "Kevin Walzer" <kw@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.
>=20
> Proprietary?
>=20
> Licensing options for C# in its Mono (Free Platform) implementation:
>=20
> http://www.mono-project.com/Licensing
>=20
> Licensing options for Objective-C in its GNUStep (Free Platform)=20
> implementaiton
>=20
> http://www.gnustep.org/information/aboutGNUstep.html
>=20
> It may be true that these languages are more widely used on their=20
> originating platforms (Windows, OS X) than on Linux, but these=20
> implementations are definitely open source.


Exactly, this is why I said that it matters only the distributions used =
by the most users.

Octavian