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On Thursday 09 August 2007 16:27, Aaron Trevena wrote: > On 09/08/07, Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thursday 09 August 2007 12:51, Jonathan Roberts wrote: > > > > Not 100% sure but this worked for me on w2k with kubuntu (ubuntu with > > > > KDE - soon to be the defacto window manager for Linux as Gnome is > > > > possibly being poisened ) : > > > > > > Have I missed something here?! > > > > Theres moves afoot to make Mono an essential part of gnome. > > Mono is the .NET for linux etc and some are worried that this will give > > M$ control over it. > > Having Mono as part of gnome doesn't worry me at all, and I've been > paying attention to these things. > > Mono is an implementation of the ECMA standard so has nothing to fear > in Europe as long as Software Patents are unenforcable - as soon as > Software Patents become enforcable most software and programmers, Free > or proprietary will be at risk. I agree but there seems to be a serious backlash against mono/Miguel Icaza etc which means that a lot of FLOSS programmers are treating it/them like MSatan itself which may lead to a fork in gnome which is probably what MSatan wants but hard working honest thinking people like Icaza cant seem to 'get' - probably because they're too honest or naive to imagine that MSatan really are as despicable as the most cynical cynic from Cynic City in a cynical mood could imagine. While I believe that .NET and Mono could have been the best thing to happen in software [for those outside of the US] since Linux I am now trying to find a way of expressing my computing ideas in another 'language' which is proving a little disillusioning at the moment. Tom te tom te tom > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html