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People just don't seem to understand..
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| Microsoft, is a convicted monopolist, and at a certain level, when Mono gets
| to the core of the famous Linux distros., Microsoft won't hesitate to lock
| the users down through patents, licenses, monopolies, and so on.. And as a
| result, Ubuntu won't stay Ubuntu anymore..
|
| Mono, is not here to make Linux users happier. The only goal behind Mono, and
| Moonlight, is to give Microsoft the ability to constrain the users of Mono
| and all the MS applications running through it, to its patents, DRM, and all
| the other Monopolistic weapons of proprietary software.
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http://omarsdaydreams.blogspot.com/2008/11/people-just-dont-seem-to-understand.html
Ballnux is listed here, wrongly:
The best Linux distributions of fall 2008
http://www.bitburners.com/articles/the-best-linux-distributions-of-fall-2008/4270/
Related:
Tasky, another good tool, another bad idea
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| Because it's written in C#. And guess what? Copyright (C) 2007 Novell, Inc.
|
| [...]
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| No word about dependencies. No word about Mono. Nothing alarming in the Goals
| section.
|
| [...]
|
| Now you know. In that f--ing Novell's Hackweek they could have started a new
| project in a different way — but no, they wanted it in Mono!
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/02/29/11/09/37-tasky-another-good-tool-another-
It's tiresome to stick to a few principles, or: Mono is FUD
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| As a final note, it would be nice if the new Fedora Project Leader would make
| a public statement on Mono. Heck, Max could too know whether Red Hat is not
| shipping Mono with RHEL because of patents, because it's wrong to do it,
| because they don't want to support it, or because they don't support it yet.
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/02/25/08/52/11-it-s-tiresome-to-stick-to-a-few-
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/
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
Mono: Maturing, but Relevant?
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| On the legal front, Microsoft and Novell have signed agreements to work
| together on some parts of Mono, and Novell and Microsoft have various other
| agreements in place. The Mono contributors have also pointed to the published
| ECMA specs for C# as the basis for their work, and have consistently said
| they remain ready to rewrite any portion of Mono that Microsoft should some
| day assert claims against (so far, there have been no such claims).
|
| Despite all of this, Mono seems to still be a marginal player in the open
| source world. A search of SourceForge, for example, reveals less than 400
| projects mentioning Mono, and C# projects (on whatever infrastructure) are
| vastly outnumbered by others. For whatever reason, the open source community
| has not widely embraced C# - whether this is due to its Microsoft roots,
| worries that Microsoft's murky IP policies will someday make Mono an
| untenable platform, or for other reasons.
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http://ostatic.com/158588-blog/mono-maturing-but-relevantss
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