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Microsoft employees started cursing me in public over this, so it means Mono is
good... for Microsoft. Also watch what the Munchkins at COLA say...
RMS says Debian Mono decision 'risky'
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| The founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Matthew Stallman, has
| termed Debian's decision to include Mono as part of its default desktop task
| a move that "leads the community in a risky direction."
|
| [...]
|
| Red Hat's community Linux distribution, Fedora, recently decided to throw out
| Mono altogether from its default install, and replaced Tomboy with Gnote.
|
| While pro-Mono zealots often claim that it is possible to obtain a
| royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory licence for the use of
| Microsoft patents which may be part of Mono, in reality, it is extremely
| difficult to even find out how one can do so.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25954/1231/
A new VFAT patent avoidance patch
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| Andrew Tridgell has posted a new patch intended to enable the kernel to work
| around the VFAT patents. Unlike the previous version (covered on LWN in May),
| this patch preserves the long filename functionality which is at the core of
| the patent. There's an associated FAQ which describes the patch and the
| approach which has been taken in its development and posting.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/338941/
Another replacement to Badboy:
Best Linux Notetaking Application
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| I know a lot of people out there like to take notes with Linux, and probably
| didn’t come across this program yet, as it look me a bit googling to find it
| again. The program is called KeepNote, and is a fantastic program for taking
| notes. I use it with Dropbox, and store all of my notes there and that way it
| is synchronized to all of my systems. The program itself is open source and
| free, and you can support it by making a donation on the homepage.
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http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/06/28/best-linux-notetaking-application/
Ubuntu tech board plays down Mono IP concerns
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| The Ubuntu technical board appears to have decided that there is no
| significant cause for IP concern over Mono, the contentious clone of
| Microsoft's .NET development environment.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25949/1231/
Recent:
Why free software shouldn't depend on Mono or C#
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| Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake
| of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a
| risky direction. It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage
| its use.
|
| The problem is not unique to Mono; any free implementation of C# would raise
| the same issue. The danger is that Microsoft is probably planning to force
| all free C# implementations underground some day using software patents. (See
| http://swpat.org and http://progfree.org.) This is a serious danger, and only
| fools would ignore it until the day it actually happens. We need to take
| precautions now to protect ourselves from this future danger.
|
| This is not to say that implementing C# is a bad thing. Free C#
| implementations permit users to run their C# programs on free platforms,
| which is good. (The GNU Project has an implementation of C# also, called
| Portable.NET.) Ideally we want to provide free implementations for all
| languages that programmers have used.
|
| The problem is not in the C# implementations, but rather in Tomboy and other
| applications written in C#. If we lose the use of C#, we will lose them too.
| That doesn't make them unethical, but it means that writing them and using
| them is taking a gratuitous risk.
|
| We should systematically arrange to depend on the free C# implementations as
| little as possible. In other words, we should discourage people from writing
| programs in C#. Therefore, we should not include C# implementations in the
| default installation of GNU/Linux distributions, and we should distribute and
| recommend non-C# applications rather than comparable C# applications whenever
| possible.
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http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono
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