Remove Mono dependency from Ubuntu
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| There has been a wide range of discussion on the subject of Mono and its
| inclusion in Ubuntu by default. Some people believe that Mono may infringe on
| Microsoft patents while others believe that it is useful to include.
| Personally, I have no idea about whether Mono does infringe on Microsoft
| patents, but I see other reasons why Ubuntu should remove it.
|
| Mono by default takes 48MB of space on the CD. The ISO download is 690+ MB.
| Therefore, it is taking up valuable space that could be used for a whole host
| of other things.
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http://lost-midnight.blogspot.com/2007/12/remove-mono-dependancy-from-ubuntu.html
Related:
Miguel, Mono and Microsoft
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| is Mono's role in the deal that of a hook to make customers write
| .NET applications because they can be run on Linux - only to find
| later on that they are armless or legless because of a change in
| the .NETspecifications, a change which Microsoft decides not to
| make public?
|
| [...]
|
| And here we have an individual who decides to replicate one of
| the proprietary company's development environments - for reasons
| best known to him alone - and keeps telling people that the reason
| he's doing it is so that he can pull people over from the
| proprietary company's side to his side!!!
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11081&Itemid=1091
All sides of the debate?
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| How many sides are there in the OOXML debate? What if all sides are Microsoft
| and Microsoft business partners?
|
| [...]
|
| Dough Mahugh (Microsoft) :
|
| Next week's XML 2007 conference in Boston features speakers from all
| sides of the document format debate, including a document interop session
| with Miguel de Icaza (Novell) and Vijay Rajagopalan (Microsoft) that I
| expect will offer a lively discussion around Open XML, ODF, and XML-based
| interoperability in general.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-29108/all-sides-of-the-debate
Mono code broken into 3 modules, MonoDevelop 1.0 to ship in January
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| First, the open source organization, sponsored by Novell, decided to separate
| the source code into three chunks: ECMA Core, Server and Desktop.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1754
OpenSolaris, Gobuntu, and be careful who you kiss
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| I read the agreement between Xandros and Microsoft, and one of the excluded
| products was Mono, so Microsoft promises to not sue Xandros over their
| distribution but excluding Mono and a few other products, i.e. they reserve
| the right to sue over Mono. I wonder if this is an interesting preview of on
| what basis they want to fight the free world.
|
| Interestingly, the Novell deal seems to be different, Mono is not excluded
| from the Novell deal. So Microsoft seems to be promising not to sue Novell
| over Mono, but keeps the option open for Xandros. Weird but true.
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http://commandline.org.uk/2007/be-careful-who-you-kiss/
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