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FSF on Microsoft’s “Empty Promise”
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| Now I’ve been preaching this gospel since Day 1. It is pure dishonesty to
| pretend like every company present the same risk and hostility to Linux, Free
| Software, or Open Source that Microsoft does. Microsoft’s hostility and
| desire to destroy Linux is not the fevered imaginations of wild-eyed zealots.
| It is documented. It is proven. It is inarguable.
|
| Now, you may want to advance the idea that Microsoft has changed. That is a
| possibility, sure – but it is not documented, proven or inarguable. The safe
| and sane position towards Microsoft is suspicion and wariness. Microsoft made
| it so, not wild-eyed zealots. It also becomes on open question on what type
| of change it is.
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/07/20/fsf-on-microsofts-empty-promise/
Solang hits Fedora
http://www.stefanoforenza.com/solang-hits-fedora/
My Fedora Repo
http://hicham.iblogger.org/
Recent:
Why don’t you just shut up?
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| A lot of times, mono critics are told we should just “shut up”. Everything
| that needs to be said has been said, no one is going to change their mind,
| and there is no point in going on about things.
|
| Let me tell you why I reject that.
|
| [...]
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| Reason four: It is too important
|
| We aren’t talking about arguing over the One True Brace Style here. Team Mono
| wants to be on your desktop. They want more Mono and even Moonlight up in
| GNOME. If they get GNOME based on .NET, then you can bet your sweet object
| code they are coming for KDE.
|
| Reason five: It sets a bad precedent
|
| First was C#/CLI, then .NET, then Moonlight. Each iteration has been less
| Free and more risky to build on. Each one is ever closer to some exclusive
| Novell-Microsoft arrangement.
|
| What of the next Microsoft technology that Team Mono decides needs to be
| cloned? Microsoft can afford to have every component integrate tightly – in
| fact, it is to thier advantage to do so. But we who rely on standards and \
| promises to protect us can not be so cavalier.
|
| Reason six: That’s what Novell wants
|
| Listen, Novell management is not a bunch of idiots. There can be no question
| that they knew entering into a relationship with Microsoft would be taken as
| a betrayal of the community. There is no doubt in my military mind they sat
| down and tried to judge the cost as best they could, and you know what they
| came up with...
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/07/17/why-dont-you-just-shut-up/
Ubuntu Free Speech Zones
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| Time to draw attention to the “Free Speech Zone” on the Ubuntu Forums.
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| The target
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| For perfectly understandable reasons, Team Mono is really targeting Ubuntu to
| get ever more mono applications in by default. Banshee is virtually a given
| at this point, and GNOME-Do is a likely follow up. There is a blizzard of
| pro-mono misinformation on the Ubuntu Forums – which it breaks my heart to
| say, doesn’t exactly have quite same level of intellectual rigor as the
| Dialogues of Plato.
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/07/18/ubuntu-free-speech-zones/
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