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Richard Stallman Says No To Mono
twitter writes "There's been a lot of fuss about mono lately. After SCO and MS suing over FAT patents, you would think avoiding anything MS would be a matter of common sense. RMS now steps into the fray to warn against a serious mistake: 'Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction. It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use. .... This is not to say that implementing C# is a bad thing. ... [writing and using applications in mono] is taking a gratuitous risk.'" Update: 06/27 20:22 GMT by T : Read on below for one Mono-eschewing attempt at getting the (excellent) Tomboy's functionality, via a similar program called Gnote. Update: 06/27 21:07 GMT by T: On the other side of the coin, reader im_thatoneguy writes "Jo Shields, a Mono Developer, has published an article on 'Why Mono Doesn't Suck,' why it is not a threat to FOSS, why it is desirable to developers and why it should be included in Ubuntu by default."
LastGuyonEarth writes "Gnote was started on April 2009 by Gnome developer Hubert Figuiere, known also for his work on Abiword. The goal of Gnote is to provide a Free Software implementation of Tomboy that doesn't rely on Mono. The ultimate goal is to replace Tomboy in an effort to make Gnome and GNU/Linux distributions non-dependant on Novell's implementation of Microsoft's .NET platform. For our testing purposes, I installed Gnote 0.5.1 on Ubuntu Jaunty through a personal PPA, but I would love to see it officially packaged in the near future."
I agree. Move this crap out, or tag it "typoinsummary"
stallman's opinion valid on inbox organization would have a lot of validity
on mono, not so much, considering his bizarre detachment from contemporary web reality
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
yet a further degree of separation from the reality the majority of us living and working in the field
and yet you apparently think RMS is beknighted to command unquestionable authority on the subject matter
no. how about he is a bizarre fossil?
now give me my troll mod for not kowtowing in unthinking cultlike worship to your saint
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
and therefore of greater validity than anything RMS could utter
i question the validity of the man's authority on technologies he does not partake of
so where's his unthinking cultish followers with my troll mod?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Troll eh? NOT!
You guys simply can't handle an informed and enlightened viewpoint that runs counter to your GPL Cult and as such you stifle on topic free speech at your whims. Pathetic.
In the end, there will be a war between people who actually need coherent technologies to write code on and the massive GNU/FSF circle jerk, who would have you run your enterprise into the ground with crappy half-assed technologies to maintain your "freedom". Who needs engineering standards? It's more fun to be a hacker!
Thank goodness no one really listens to RMS. He's just a crazy old man living in a cave, really. Look at how much the world accomplishes without him. What does he do anymore? He's just a loud-mouthed obstructionist.
Let's hear it from someone who has a real job and has to face these technologies day to day.