Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
>> Miguel de Microsoft said that 4.0 will be based on .NET. Let's hope
>> he has changed his mind.
>
> If he doesn't, I suspect that project will fork, and damn fast.
"I'd like to see Gnome applications written in .NET in version 4.0 - no,
version 3.0. But Gnome 4.0 should be based on .NET," ~ Miguel de Icaza
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/01/gnome_to_be_based/
I'm sick and tired of having to rip out the proprietary or encumbered
crud from certain so-called Free Software projects, just to maintain a
clean system. The more time goes by, the more intractable this crud
becomes, until eventually it reaches that point of diminishing returns
where it just isn't worth the effort.
IMHO Gnome has long since past that point, and not just specifically
because of .Net. Remember that de Icaza was the same guy who became
infatuated with ActiveX all those years ago. IMHO Gnome is much more of
the Windows paradigm than GNU/Linux, conceptually speaking. Moving
Gnome's codebase over to .Net is inevitable, given the palpably
Microsoft oriented goals of its creator.
So I've reached the conclusion that it'd be a waste of time to fork
certain project at this point, especially as there are so many other
choices out their.
My next round of distro upgrades will see me move to KDE. Permanently.
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K.
http://slated.org
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