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."

Comments

easy solution

[ionix5891]

rename it to GNU/Mono

Stallmans just mad because

[doas777]

he can't make us call it "gnu-mono", so it must be bad.

Re:"M$"

[ColdWetDog]

Well, it is from Twitter. So you're close. Hi twit! Glad to see you back with you're insightful erudite expositions.

Re:Did RMS get back on his meds?

[Yvan256]

You mean like APPL€?

Re:Pot calling the kettle black

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes. Sorry about that. I was modding at such haste and I'm a bit drunk as well... It looked trollish at a quick drunken glance, but I have posted elsewhere in the conversation to undo my erroneous mod now.

Re:MS not M$

[Anonymous Coward]

You come here to watch guys jerk each other off?

Perhaps they should be laughing at you.....

Re:Microsoft, I said NO!

[tukang]

Funny, we've been a customer of Microsoft's for 20 years and have yet to experience this "raping" you speak of

Are you sure you're not suffering from stockholm syndrome?

He also says no to...

[actionbastard]

Haircuts, shaving, dieting, and exercise.

Re:"M$"

[miknix]

I $trongly di$courage the u$e of '$' when writing Micro$oft. A$ parent $ay$, it
i$ a childi$h behavior which make$ look like that Micro$oft unique purpo$e i$
to make $. Thi$ i$ totally fal$e becau$e we all know Micro$oft want$ to build
a better digital world where maliciou$ $oftware doe$ not exi$t.

Plea$e $top u$ing '$',
thank you.

Re:"M$"

[CarpetShark]

Ahh :) Thanks for clarifying. Now I don't have to wonder how he missed that MS is bad :)

Re:MS not M$

[shaitand]

I am biased toward gravity as well. I probably have more support for my negative bias toward Microsoft than I have support for my belief in gravity.

Re:"M$"

[Alex Belits]

They work for M$ marketing department.

Re:"M$"

[Culture20]

For lispers, he meant (use 'microsoft) and not (use microsoft). ;-)

Your parenthesthisth are misthmatched.