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Banshee a GNOME project?
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| Interesting bit of spin out of Team Mono
| today.
|
| Itâs not what you think, baby.
|
| In a numbers-heavy blog post, Bertrand
| Loretz tries to make the argument that
| âBanshee is a GNOME Projectâ and not a
| âNovell projectâ. While I understand why one
| might want to distance themselves from
| Novell, youâre going to have a rough time
| trying that with Banshee.
|
| For starters Novell owns the Banshee name,
| logo and icon. One might think that pretty
| much seals the deal?
|
| Another point of interest is that âone of
| the purposes building Banshee was to
| showcase building an application on Mono.â
|
| Thereâs also this bit right there on the
| Banshee âAboutâ Page:
|
| Novell employs Aaron and Gabriel Burt to
| work on Banshee.
|
| So, just going by Mr. Loretzâs own numbers,
| at least 70.4% of the code contributions
| came from the 2 developers Novell is paying
| to work on Banshee.
|
| So, Novell owns the project name and
| likeness, and pays for the overwhelming
| majority of the actual code, but itâs not
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/10/22/banshee-a-gnome-project/
Recent:
Banshee UI to be in Moonlight
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| Yes. Thatâs right. According to the GCDS 2009 presentation notes on the
| Banshee site, we learn lots of nice stuff about Banshee:
|
| âItâs not just an app, itâs a platformâ.
|
| * Long term goal is to write the UI in Moonlight
| o Declarative UI, canvas, scene graph, and toolkit
| o Moonlight is an Open Source implementation of Microsoftâs
| Silverlight technology â and it is awesome
|
| âBanshee is going to do photosâ
|
| âWe are re-basing the F-Spot core on top of Bansheeâ
|
| And it ends with GNOME, Mono and Banshee logos.
|
| Moonlight is of course, absolutely toxic unless you get it directly from
| Novell, as the so-called âcovenantâ specifically prohibits non-Novell
| distributions from distributing Moonlight
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/07/14/banshee-ui-to-be-in-moonlight/
Banshee not good enough; Gomer Pyle reacts
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| It seems we are settling on the âbest-of-breedâ as the ultimate
| justification. This is a good stop if you are on Team Mono, because you can
| call any application the âbest-of-breedâ so long as you are the one that gets
| to decide what factors make it the âbest-of-breedâ.
|
| I always chuckle around #4; Team Mono is forever chanting âpragmatismâ and
| how âthe user doesnât care about freedom or principlesâ. Yet itâs quite
| clear that the overwhelming majority of users do not want Banshee. So, do the
| users matter or not? It seems to me that how much they matter is in direct
| proportion to how much they support you on any specific issue.
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/07/14/banshee-not-good-enough-gomer-pyle-reacts/
Disinformation Disinfected, pt. 3: Banshee in Ubuntu
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| Here, letâs take a look at one of the main things that getâs me going about
| mono-supporters.
|
| There is a strong push to get Banshee in as the default media player in
| Ubuntu. Hereâs my take on that.
|
| The first lie: Banshee saves space.
|
| As near as I can tell, the whole thing really got going from an
| apebox.org ârantâ back around April. In this [cough]fact-filled[/cough] post,
| the assertion is made that 6.1 MiB will be saved on the LiveCD by
| replacing âbloated C-basedâ Rhythmbox with Banshee.
|
| This, like most pro-mono propaganda is about 25% truth/ 75% lie. You see, it
| doesnât count the accompanying documentation of Rhythmbox. The apebox.org
| ranter casually cedes the point on page 4 or so of this thread, pretending
| all the while like space was ânever really my main argument.â
|
| [...]
|
| Itâs my opinion that despite protestations of âoh, Iâm just looking out for
| the best applicationâ, it is clear the initial thrust of getting Banshee into
| Ubuntu as the default media player was based on the pro-mono agenda of simply
| pushing mono apps.
|
| Let me be clear on my position: if people want to use mono apps, well then,
| drop it in the repos and drive on Power Ranger. It is the constant âshove it
| down their throatsâ of the pro-mono brigade which offends me the most.
|
| Mindshare is very important; it is why all that shovelware pays to have their
| crappy applications on the WinXP OEM desktop. It is a major âwinâ for mono to
| be included by default, because then mono-supporters can simply point to some
| existing application and say âwell, that mono app is already in, so why not
| this one?â
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http://meandubuntu.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/disinformation-disinfected-pt-3-banshee-in-ubuntu/
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