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All GPLed Code Removed From MonoDevelop

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the those-who-write-the-code-make-the-rules dept.

rysiek writes "A few days ago, Miguel de Icaza wrote on his blog that the whole of MonoDevelop is now 'free' of GPL-licensed code. 'MonoDevelop code is now LGPLv2 and MIT X11 licensed. We have removed all of the GPL code, allowing addins to use Apache, MS-PL code as well as allowing proprietary add-ins to be used with MonoDevelop (like RemObject's Oxygene).'"

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  1. Re:False dichotomy by Aladrin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And yet, you continue to whine about it. Like it or not, it -is- viral. And these people -have- chosen not to use it, just like you suggest. And here you are whining about them actually taking the very same action you recommend.

    The fact that many projects wouldn't exist without GPL has absolutely nothing to do with this project. It would exist either way.

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  2. Re:Good. by postmortem · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think you need to work 'little' more to understand why it is actually the other way around. And to get it why Java is more successful than C#.

  3. Re:Why doesn't Miguel just go to work for Microsof by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I wouldn't be surprised as Microsoft's investment in astroturfing increases that more and more pressure to not be GPL will come up.

    Everybody knows De Icaza is a MS shill.

  4. Re:Good. by xtracto · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think you need to work 'little' more to understand why it is actually the other way around. And to get it why Java is more successful than C#.

    I thought exactly the same, 1.5 years of working with a language?

    Two years in the school does not count because you did not need to clean and correct your shitty program after it stops working in the production servers.

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  5. Re:Does anyone really use it? by Visual+Echo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    but does anyone use MonoDevelop?

    It runs like crap. Click in the wrong place and it crashes.

    and frankly if you're using Mono you're probably an MS guy who wants his stuff to work on linux rather than a *nix dev anyway. Aren't you?

    I want it to work. Period. I'm a computer guy, I don't define or limit myself to Microsoft, Linux, or embedded 68HC11A, I just want a managed language that works. Shove your bigotry.

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