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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 Nursie · · Score: 0, Troll

    What? Where did you see me whine about their decision?

    Go on, point it out. I'm waiting.

    *cough* *strawman argument* *cough*

  2. Re:Removing the GPL code. by ThatsNotPudding · · Score: 0, Troll

    You are such a horrible person.

  3. I just love it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I just love watching all you open-source zealots attack each other. Miguel de Icaza has forgotten more about software than most of you will ever learn. But you feel justified in attacking the work he is doing, all because it has the stench of the hated Microsoft about it. And all without any regard to the real value of de Icaza's work.

    And Microsoft -- Microsoft that you just love to hate, you little fan boy -- has also done far more good than any of you will ever do, for software engineering and for real people, not just zealots.

    So go on. Froth at the mouth. Attack each other. I'm a Microsoft employee, have been for years, and I just fucking LOVE it.

  4. Re:Does anyone really use it? by binarylarry · · Score: 1, Troll

    Java has a much fancier and faster runtime, has better tools, has a massive choice of 3rd party libraries for *anything*, runs on more systems and hardware, has much more support across companies in the computing technology industry and it's open source. .NET has a really nice IDE in Visual Studio (almost as good as Eclipse) but it's Windows only. It also has C# which has some nice features, but unfortunately is like Java with a giant spoiler and neon lights attached to it.

    Mono is a shitty knock off of .NET. It's not really compatible in the vast majority of cases, it's basically "Managed Wine." I think Mono has it's purposes, if you really need to get a .NET app working on Linux by any means, but like Wine it's really the last resort if you have no other choice.

    --
    Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
  5. Here we go again by SpoodyGoon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh no Microsoft is out to get us all... blah blah bla anyone who looks at Microsoft or .NET is evil blah blah blah... these are the people who are the Rush Limbaugh of the software world. Next thing you know we'll be hearing about Linux death squads. Mono is here and it is not going to go away no matter how hard you complain, I can prove my point by showing that Ubuntu while not my personal favorite OS is continueing to use Mono and has no plans to stop. If you don't want to use Mono that's fine no problem, but please don't use Mono quietly there are software developers trying to work.

  6. Re:Now for business use by Anpheus · · Score: 0, Troll

    What a terrific business opportunity...

    I can't imagine why more businesses don't develop and sell Linux kernel modules.