Marti van Lin wrote:
> Tony Manco wrote:
>
>> Marti van Lin wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Fedora casts Mono into outer darkness
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | Red Hat's community GNU/Linux distribution, Fedora, has decided to replace
>>>> | the Mono-dependent note-taking application Tomboy with Gnote in upcoming
>>>> | releases, according to a message posted to the Fedora Desktop mailing list.
>>>> |
>>>> | Red Hat developer Matthias Clasen wrote: "I have now changed the default
>>>> | panel configuration in F12 to include Gnote instead of Tomboy, and changed
>>>> | comps to make Gnote default and Tomboy optional."
>>>> |
>>>> | F12 refers to Fedora 12; the current version is Fedora 10. Gnote is a port of
>>>> | Tomboy in C++/Gtkmm and was recently released by former Novell developer
>>>> | Hubert Figuiere. There are fears around Mono that it may be subject to patent
>>>> | claims by Microsoft down the track.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25469/1090/
>>> I hope Ubuntu will follow ASAP.
>>>
>>> [rest snipped]
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>> Your hope might be lost...
>
> How come, are the MONO pushers striking again?
>
> I know quite a bunch of Ubuntu users who want MONO /at least/ not to be
> installed by default. There are multiple proposals on Ubuntu Brainstorm
> to remove MONO completely from Ubuntu.
>
> It serves no particular purpose, other than needles consuming diskspace.
Banshee might find it's way into Ubuntu and replace Rhythmbox, and this
means Ubuntu will have three Mono dependent applications by default and
IMO, it also means that all hope for Mono removal from Ubuntu are lost.
> The applications that require MONO (F-Spot and Tomboy notes) are a joke
> IMHO, there are much better non MONO dependent applications for that
> (Gthumb and screenlets comes up with its own "Pick Up" notes solution)
> and now Gnotes is available.
Agreed!
> - proprietary video drivers are not installed by default, because of
> license issues;
> - proprietary WLAN driver are not installed by default, because of
> license issues;
> - proprietary codecs, java and fonts are not installed by by default
> because of license issues;
> - MONO is installed by default, because license issues are ignored.
>
> Is there something wrong with that picture or what?
Yeah, some people neglect the problems Mono might have in the future...
OTOH, people are free to do what they want with their system, they can
just uninstall Mono and replace it's applications with real ones.
Regards
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It's a plane..
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