Shifting sands: Mono, take note
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| And now we come back to the question of shifting standards. There is no
| doubt that Microsoft has co-opted many ideas and methods first developed
| in the FOSS community and used them to its benefit. Even if it doesn't
| follow its famous "embrace, extend and extinguish" method, Microsoft
| has no difficulty in keeping up with any changes in FOSS ideas it
| borrows - the source is available.
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| But Mono cannot do this because it is aping (pun intended)
| proprietary software: Microsoft may have submitted standards
| for some classes of .Net to the standards organisation ECMA
| but there is nothing to prevent the company from changing
| everything tomorrow - and then just taking its ball and going home.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9542&Itemid=1091
Vista Gets Taste of Linux Medicine
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| It's humorous and sad, all at the same time. Vista users are closer than
| ever to the woes that used to plague many Linux users. The fact is that
| if you need NVIDIA graphics to work with your favorite game, you just
| may be out of luck here.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2469&Itemid=449
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