[Lazarus] Xamarin becomes free and open-source

[Michael Schnell]

On 04/01/2016 09:53 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> "Windows IOT" is a misnomer. Windows = GUI. The name kind of gives it 
> away.
Of course language-wise you are right, but politically of course M$ 
needs to stick to the "Windows" name, even if stripping off any sense of 
that.

The full name is  "Windows 10 IoT Core"  -> 
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot.

In fact they renamed "embedded" to "IOT" which again is a misnomer, as 
you can happily and viably do deeply embedded devices using that OS that 
don't have any internet connectivity or not even a network interface at all.

(Of course Microsoft ".NET" was a misnomer as well, as the ".NET 
framework" that drives CIL (and with that languages like C#, IronPython, 
Oxygene and some others) hast nothing to do with any network at all).

With their wordings, the M$ salesmen seem to desperately try to hide 
that the Linux world is ,more competent with networking ;-) .

-Michael