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Brandon Sharitt <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: lgpl
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Package: platformX
System name: platformx
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My project intends to be a new software platform that will be capable of 
running on a variety of operating systems. Although it won\'t be resticed to 
free platform, one of it\'s primary platforms will be GNU/Linux. The main three 
platforms that this platfom will target will be Unix(Linux, FreeBSD, etc.), 
Windows, and MacOS. It is similar to a Mono and DotGNu since it will try to 
incorporate free implementations of the .NET APIs, but it\'s not going to be 
quite the same. First off, it goes beyond .NET, I am mainly implemening those 
APIs since they will be around whether we like it or not, and although I don\'t 
like M$, the idea of .NET isn\'t bad, and although their motives and methods 
are questionable, .NET may e one othe better things that M$ has come out with 
in a while. My project, platformX, will only implement the software platform 
and APIs, not he webservices as much, and definatly not the things like 
Passport. platformX isn\'t exactly an implementation of .NET, as a matter of 
fact, .NET is only going to be there to create cross pletform compatibility 
with .NET since it will be utilized be some. One of the primary goals is to go 
beyond .NET and create a new and inovative platform that implements new and 
more modern APIs than that of older ones, and is actually being designed more 
like that of Apple\'s Cocoa, although it is not an implementation of this, it 
is just being used as a model since it is an API that I like. Initially my plan 
was to create a completly new operating system and implement my ideas for an 
API on it, but I didn\'t have to low level knowledge of kernel programming to 
create a good stable OS. After I gave up on that, I decided to implement it on 
Linux(Unix), but I think I\'ll go beyond that and make avalible to as many OSes 
as I can. Basically in the end platformX will be a set of libraries, runtimes, 
and these types of things that will allow several operatings systems to run 
software using the platformX APIs unchanged without have to recompile for that 
particular system. The will also be a software developers kit that will be 
avalible for many languages, although mains ones that are already planned for 
are C, C++, perl, python, Java, maybe C#(I\'m still not sure about supporting 
this even if there are free compilers), and there will probally be others 
supported languages. While we will be implementing the .NET APIs, we will do it 
all within the bounds of free software. I would also like to rewite Mono and 
licence the rewite under the LGPL, although I think the LGPL(my work will be 
LGPL) and the MIT licence can be used together. So in all, platformX will be a 
new software plaform that will incorporate newer and more modern API on a 
variety of systems and hopefully futher encourage cross platform development.