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Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation
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."
20 minutes? I downloaded the source tarball in 10 seconds.
Homes in rural areas of the United States[1] often can't get cable or DSL Internet. So a 10-second download would mean 40 KB, not the 6 MB of the current Tomboy 0.14.2 release found here.
[1] The United States is home of Slashdot and Software in the Public Interest. People who live in rural areas grow the food that you eat.
If it lacks some features it is hardly a line by line clone, is it? The source for my claim can easily be your acceptance of the fact that Tomboy has features that Gnote is lacking. The fact that someone is working on it doesn't mean anythin, the feature simply isn't there for me to use.
Judging an app by what it *might* do in the future is hardly a good procedure for including the app in a default install. If Gnote is the better app in the future, then, by all means, substitute the two.
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