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Re: Boycott Novell

In article <00ojp4-brj.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>, "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Okay, so here's an actual debate and I beg to differ. Novell has said
> > that it has big plans for .NET (Mono) and a lot of GNOME is now using
> > Mono packages and apparently depends on them. [H]omer did some tests
> > to confirm this. It even affects Fedora and Red Hat promised that it
> > would not use Mono.
> 
> "Including mono-core itself, that makes a total of 48 packages."
> 
> http://slated.org/mono_infestation_in_fedora

The FSF evidently thinks it is safe to develop .NET for GNU systems:

   <http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/>

and they have incorporated some Mono code in that.

-- 
--Tim Smith

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