____/ Mark Kent on Monday 02 July 2007 12:34 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 01 July 2007 12:41 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Moonlight Desklets - Mono desktop widgets
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| The Mono project team created a desktop widgets environment similar
>>>>| to SuperKaramba or gDesklets. While in early development the C# based
>>>>| project has interesting features like running separate or combined
>>>>| sandboxes.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>>
>>
http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/moonlight-desklets-mono-desktop-widgets/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hey, let's all work really hard to get everything proprietary as quickly
>>> as possible. Who needs GPLv3, eh? Why don't we all just give up now,
>>> just as we are about to win.
>>
>> In a blog I was writing a little more about Novell's plan to put a lot of
>> .NET in their Linux. They said so on numerous occasions. Would you believe
>> that they educate young programmers by introducing them to Mono? We're not
>> talking here about people who happen to have just arrived from the Windows
>> world. Novell actually/almost /favours/ Microsoft technologies (OOXML,
>> proprietary protocols, Silverlight).
>
> I would suspect that Novell are actively favouring Microsoft
> technologies, after all, that's precisely what Microsoft paid them to
> do. They also employ Mr de Icaza, who's always wanted to work for MS
> anyway, so now he has the next best thing, he works for someone else,
> but is partly paid for by MS.
I recently read some blog items (not the most reliable source) which said that
Novell recommended the use of Vista in some college. The person who was
apparently around to observe this said it was related to their deal with
Microsoft.
Mr. de Icaza started many of his computer affairs with an interview at
Microsoft. See his page at Wikipedia. I blogged a lot more about it in
youknowwhatdomain...
>> Novell has too many senior people (even VCs) who are friends with Microsoft.
>> They should have never acquired (ruined) SuSE and entered the Linux market.
>> They are a total misfit and it shows. Sadly, some programmers have a true
>> Free software spirit, but they live in the prison of their employer, so they
>> keep quiet.
>>
>
> This is Microsoft's last defence against the free software world.
> Sadly, it appears to have found a significant amount of support amongst
> the previously open-source people here and elsehwere for this kind of
> activity.
>
> It's hard to imagine that we've come so far, and yet so many people are
> quite happy to drop it all now just for the sake of a wireless card or
> graphics card. I continue to be disappointed with the shortsightedness
> of most people.
Yes, PJ made this point just a couple of days ago. Carmony take a lot of c**p
these days. He does more harm than good. I can't believe he still has ESR's
full support. Mind you, ESR is on the board there... the same guy who told
Mundie (IIRC) that he is "his worst nightmare" suddenly becomes a friend (by
proxy). Microsoft tried to hire ESR as well, IIRC, only to receive public
humiliation in return.
> Still, I'm confident that in the long run, even the doubting Thomases we
> have here will conquer their fears, and go back to considering that a
> free software approach is viable.
>
> Possibly the worst thing which ever happened to Linux was the release of
> the nVidia driver - I'd never imagined that it could cause such problems,
> but it has done. If nVidia had released an open-source driver, I strongly
> suspect that GPLv3 would have gone through without so much as a peep
> from most people, unfortunately, that is not the situation we are in.
> Still, the open-source nVidia driver is looking good, so perhaps we'll be
> on that this year (the website promises something usable by August/Sept
> this year, which is only a few weeks away). By that time, perhaps it
> will be possible to get the Mac sat next to me capable of using its
> nVidia card in linux in openGL, so that it would be able to play nexuiz
> with the other machines.
>
> I'm not so willing to compromise my principles.
Having read Groklaw for a while, I am beginning to feel the same way. I have
seen what happens when compromises (shortcut routes) are made. If you want a
UNIX of blobs, you have OS X (or even Solaris for the servers). We don't need
another Apple called the Linux foundation.
--
~~ Best of wishes
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