We can look at it this way: Would Piper's acceptance by the FSF et al have stopped Mono and .GNU? Probably not. They probably would have come out with announcements exactly the same, ignoring Piper, and we would have said, "What are we, chopped liver?" There's an alternate name for Piper: Chopped Liver ;-) Jeff "J.W. Bizzaro" wrote: > > Have you seen all the hub-bub about .NET alternatives this week? I'm feeling > a bit disturbed at the attention these projects (3 of them now) are getting, > and that the FSF has endorsed 2 of them. I had been shouting "Piper is an > Open Source .NET alternative!" earlier last year, and we got nearly no > attention from it (of course then I had to stop saying that). Also, I wanted > to get official GNU project standing from the FSF, and now it seems we may > have missed that opportunity, at least with respect to Piper being a .NET > alternative. -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin --