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How to Advocate for/against Mono Convincingly
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| And a mono skeptic like me would vote, (by
| this very blog post by the way) by saying,
| "I, Chao-Kuei Hung, recommend my employer,
| Chaoyang University of Technology, to use
| software linked with gtk and qt. I am
| willing to donate one full year's salary to
| my Univ if my Univ ever gets threatened by
| or has to pay for patents directly related
| to these libraries." BtW, one can vote for
| more than one library, as I did.
|
| Now, the point is not that the employer
| would really accept the recommendation
| because of the assurance of a non-lawyer
| Chao-Kuei Hung. (In fact my Univ completely
| ignores even my repeated recommendations to
| use ODF for long term archiving
| considerations. They wouldn't even know
| what mono is, and they wouldn't care even
| if I were a law professor.) And the point
| is not that anyone would care about me
| losing one year's salary to my employer
| when bad things about patents happen. The
| point is that the voter dares to bet his
| reputation for the software libraries that
| he considers safer in terms of legal
| threats. Nor is it important how much each
| voter's reputation counts. The more
| reputation a voter has, the more he risks,
| and the more credit/weight his vote would
| naturally carry. In other words, not all
| votes are equal.
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http://blog.ofset.org/ckhung/index.php?post/09ag
Recent:
Codeplex Foundation Motivations Revealed
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| Microsoft man Sam Ramji reveals some of the Codeplex | Foundationâs motivations.
|
| In responding to the devestating criticism of the
| Codeplex Foundationâs fundamentally flawed
| organization and the high skepticism of its motives,
| Mr. Ramji revealed a bit of the true motives behind
| the Codeplex Foundation:
|
| Look at projects related to Mono, you also can
| look at NUnit, NHibernate, we really feel
| optimistic that the Foundation could help them
| gain a higher level of credibility in the open
| source community. They feel they have been
| lacking that strong moral support.
|
| Break that down and chew on it a bit!
|
| Mr. Ramji is saying you know those Microsoft-
| approved âOpen Sourceâ projects like Mono? And you
| know how the Open Source community keeps rejecting
| them? Well Microsoft is going to create our own
| playing field and support them!
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft is not new at leveraging its considerable
| resources into creating a rubber-stamp pre-approved
| situation, especially when the real and existing
| community doesnât want anything to do with
| Microsoftâs offerings â <cough> OOXML</cough> â and
| the CodePlex Foundation is just another example of
| that.
|
| The very idea that Microsoft can even set up an
| independent Open Source foundation is absolutely
| ludicrious. Pick any absurd analogy you like:
| Yankees fans setting up a Red Sox Appreciation
| Society, the Klan setting up a Civil Rights
| commission, Nickleback fans setting up a music
| appreciation group, whatever.
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http://www.the-source.com/2009/09/codeplex-foundation-motivations-revealed/
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