From: jimrtex@pipeline.com 
  
 On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:25:04 -0000, "Devin L. Ganger" 
  wrote: 
  
 >On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:24:47 -0500, Jim Riley  wrote: 
  
 ["it" in the following sentence refers to the fact that the only 
 newsgroup for discussing c# is on Microsoft's proprietary server 
 (albeit one that it sometimes more widely distributed)] 
  
 >>  It also suggests that c# is a proprietary product of Microsoft, which 
 >>  begs the question of why there is a need for a group for discussing 
 >>  standarization independent of Microsoft? 
 > 
 >A simple check will show this suggestion to be false, though.  There 
 >is at least one non-Microsoft implementation of C# available now, though 
 >not as full featured, and Microsoft has submitted CLI and C# to the ECMA 
 >standards body. 
  
 So if someone wants to discuss the non-Microsoft implementation they 
 would at present be directed to use the microsoft.* hierarchy, and 
 told if their server does not carry it, to use the Microsoft server? 
  
 -- 
 Jim Riley 
  
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