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Re: [LUG] Poisoned Gnome?

 

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
>


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