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Test drive OpenOffice 3 RC 1
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| The final release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is expected later this month, in time
| for the upcoming Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora and OpenSuse releases later this
| year.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=3031
But:
Defeated (the common sense, by Mandriva)
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| # rpm -i --force openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm 2>&1 |
| grep mono
| libmono.so.0 is needed by
| openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
| mono(mscorlib) = 1.0.5000.0 is needed by
| openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
| mono(mscorlib) = 2.0.0.0 is needed by
| openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/09/12/06/09/30-defeated-the-common-sense-by-man
Here is Microsoft saying that it's patent poison:
http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/19/mono-officially-a-minefield-is-ooo-too/
Related:
Embracing the .Beast
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| Mono allows programmers to program in Visual Basic on Linux and run their
| applications on Windows, or develop in C# on Windows and run their
| applications on Linux, but remains a controversial addition to the Linux
| developers' arsenal.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/servers/features/160776/embracing-the-beast.html
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
Red Hat Doesn't Want Mono
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| There are a lot of great new programs and innovations expected
| in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Novell-led Mono project isn't
| one of them.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3644981
Who would use Mono now?
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| With Java available as default in every Linux distribution (made
| possible by the move to GPL) I think Java has a great future on
| Linux. Better integration into the Gnome and KDE desktops would be
| nice, but I guess that is just a matter of time now that it's
| Open Source.
|
| [...]
|
| You can call it FUD, but for me it's a question of investing my time
| and energy in technology that are and will be available on the
| platforms I use (Mac OS X and Linux). I don't trust Microsoft and I
| don't trust Novell anymore either. Who knows when Microsot will bring
| out it's patents and kill Mono use outside of Novell? I think .NET is
| good if you want to develop for Windows only. For cross platform
| development I would not use it - I would go for Java.
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http://labora.harnvi.net/?p=37
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