Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 15, 2009 @01:29AM from the gonna-need-a-better-girdle dept.

pallmall1 writes "OS News reports that Debian developer Josselin Mouette got Tomboy accepted as a dependency for gnome in the next release of Debian (codenamed Squeeze). While that may seem like nothing big (except for the 50 MByte size of the Tomboy package), Tomboy requires Mono — meaning that Mono will now be installed by default. Apparently, Debian doesn't have the same concerns over using specifications patented by Microsoft and licensed under undisclosed terms that Red Hat does. Perhaps Debian doesn't believe that Microsoft might do something like Rambus did."

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Yay First Post by nscott89 · 2009-06-15 01:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I see Microsoft having a field day with this...
Re:Mono is a gateway to cross-platform virii by ericrost · 2009-06-15 03:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

AFFECT, something affects something else. The way in which it affects it often leads to effects.

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