Mono and the Game Developers Conference
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| Last week some of us from the Mono team at Novell went to San Francisco for
| the Game Developers Conference. As some of my dear readers know, I was not
| much of a gamer a year ago, and I do not claim to understand this industry.
|
| [...]
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| Mono and XNA
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| Mono does not really attempt to compete with Microsoft XNA
|
| Microsoft's XNA is an end-to-end solution for game developers that want to
| create games for Windows, the XBox and the Zune, the XNA approach is to write
| manage code on *top* of XNA.
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http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Feb-26.html
Mono? Mono!
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| Note the lack of good faith:
|
| Nobody said that "GNOME depends on Mono"; rather, Mono is pushed into GNOME,
| distros are installing Tomboy and F-Spot and Beagle by default, and users
| are intoxicated to believe that they can't live without Mono!
|
| "GNOME depends on libbeagle, a Mono program": Sir, we knew that libbeagle is
| a C library! But why is it there? (Do you need a hint?)
|
| "NDesk-DBus is replacing DBus in GNOME": I'm afraid this will happen one
| day!
|
| "Someday soon it will be practically impossible to write any app for GNOME
| without being forced to use MONO": Yes, this is going to be true! (Alas...)
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/02/27/10/23/17-mono-mono-
Related:
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
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