____/ [H]omer on Sunday 15 July 2007 00:17 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Kier spake thusly:
>> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:05:45 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
>>> In article <i8lnm4-tp9.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>, "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>
>>>> .---- | This is a call for developers who are interested in
>>>> | pushing the limits of content and code freedom - including
>>>> | firmware, content, and authoring infrastructure, to join the
>>>> | team and help identify places where we must separate out pieces
>>>> | that don't belong in Gobuntu from the standard Ubuntu builds.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> They should start by eliminating Mono, which they still ship:
>>>>
>>>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/gobuntu/daily/current/source/gutsy-src-1.list
>>>>
>>>> Along with it's tainted dependants, such as Novell's Beagle.
>>>
>>> Yeah, who would expect to find free software that follows
>>> international standards, like Mono, in a free operating system?
>>> What were they thinking?
>
> It's not Free, it's patent encumbered and subject to a dubious RAND clause.
When you use Mono, watch your back.
http://boycottnovell.com/category/mono/
Microsoft could not only turn the table (or throw a chair) on you
by 'extending', but its lawyers could also go Rambo III on your arse. Groklaw
has already analysed this issue and it's up on Grokdoc.
>> I don't get the exteme hostility to Mono, at all. For instance, Linux
>> Format mag is certainly not antagonistic to it, since they've
>> published several good articles about programming with Mono.
>>
>> There's room for totally Free software distros like gNewSense, and I
>> have nothing whatever against them, I think it's fine that the devs
>> want to do that, and can do that. But why start crapping on Ubuntu?
>> Not everyone is a Free software purist. Some need/want more
>> flexibility.
>
> This isn't Ubuntu, it's Gobuntu - with the specific goal of being an
> untainted version of Ubuntu. Presumably there *are* some people who
> wanted this, otherwise they wouldn't have created this fork in the first
> place.
I think they just don't have enough manpower to go after and eliminate the
unwanted bits. gNewSense was the work of only a couple of people. Mark invited
more people to discuss and develop it. that was last week.
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