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Free Software, Take Note! An overview of Gnote 0.5.1
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| To me, this is a huge victory for Anti-Mono supporters. Users get just as
| much functionality out of their old apps, and are rewarded a freedom from
| code patents at the very same time! It's a win-win situation!
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http://linux.com/community/blogs/Free-Software-Take-Note-An-overview-of-Gnote-0.5.1-.html
John Sullivan (FSF):
http://identi.ca/notice/5778840
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| !fsf rms warning about !debian and others depending on Mono:
| http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono
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Rainer Weikusat - Subject: Re: The will to debate...
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| In this particular case, the conclusion is,
| however, not that patents would be irrelvant
| (as you claim), but that they are a very
| serious problem affecting all software developers
| and users. This implies that, unfortunately,
| mildy annoying certain Novell-employees
| won't help. And neither does creating
| the public illusion that annoying those
| Novell-employees would be sufficient to avoid
| the dangers of the USPTO 'software patent system'.
| This is actually systematic downplaying of a serious,
| public problem in order to gain ammunition for an
| entirely private crusade of revenge, IOW, anti-social
| and possibly damaging/ dangerous behaviour.
| .
| As an added bonus, it doesn't even work: Helping
| 'dubious comrades', like LinuxInsider, with
| painting all people who are critical of Mono
| as crackpots by virtue of drowning any attempt
| at a serious discussion of the associated issues,
| eg Microsoft-controlled APIs, especially,
| bad Microsoft-controlled APIs in, in "Patents!
| Patents! Patents!"-shrieks is likely to rather
| help than hinder the proliferation of C#/.NET.
| .
| But this is certainly entirely coincidental ...
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-06-23-014-39-IN-MS-SW-0003
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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