2001-09-27 Ravi Pratap <ravi@ximian.com>

[mono.git] / doc / rationale

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--- a/doc/rationale
+++ b/doc/rationale
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
        standard GNOME interfaces for easily creating reusable,
        language independent components, controls and compound
        documents.  This technology is known as <a
-       href="http://www.ximian.com/tech/bonobo.php3">Bonobo<a>.
+       href="http://www.ximian.com/tech/bonobo.php3">Bonobo</a>.
        Interfaces to Bonobo exist for C, Perl, Python, and
        Java.
 
@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@
        For example, an XML parsing Bonobo/CORBA component would be
        inefficient compared to a C API.
 
+** Another explanation
+
+       I recently explained our motivations to Dave Winer, and he posted
+       it <a
+       href="http://scriptingnews.userland.com/stories/storyReader$1275">here</a>
+
 ** Microsoft's .NET
 
        The Microsoft .NET initiative is confusing because it is a
@@ -102,10 +108,10 @@
 
 ** ECMA standards.
 
-       Microsoft, HP and Intel have submitted the
+       Microsoft has submitted the
        specifications of C#, the runtime, the metadata and the
        other various bits of the .NET development platform to the
-       ECMA for standarization.
+       <a href="http://www.ecma.ch">ECMA</a> for standarization.
 
        You can get a copy of the specifications submitted to ECMA
        from: <a href="http://www.dotnetexperts.com/ecma">http://www.dotnetexperts.com/ecma</a>