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Re: Call to Remove Mono/.NET/Patent Mess from Ubuntu GNU/Linux

Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> ____/ cc on Saturday 15 December 2007 13:24 : \____

>> So stop arguing about it. Stop posting about it. Start developing
>> in Java. Download something else besides Ubuntu. Nothing about the 
>> inclusion of Mono forces anyone to develop .net code. If it's such
>> a bad fucking thing, then don't use it. Freedom of choice.
> 
> I don't know if you're in a trollish mood today, but I'll just
> respond by adding that Mono is increasingly being forcefed,

Well if he actually *used* GNU/Linux rather than just bitched about it,
then he'd know that it is becoming increasingly difficult to disentangle
Mono from many distributions, including the one I've spent a good
portion of my life supporting. Ubuntu is just the tip of the iceberg.
Novell (de Icaza) is of course the wellspring from which this particular
poison flows, which then taints Gnome, and so every distro that uses it
(which is probably most of them).

That "Freedom of choice", is rapidly diminishing down to just one of two
options; use a prebuilt distro poisoned by Mono, or build your own from
scratch. It isn't quite there yet, but it's coming. Soon.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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