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Banshee, Mono May Be Dropped From Ubuntu Default
itwbennett writes "The Banshee music application, and Mono, the open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework, on which Banshee is dependent, may be excluded from the next release of Ubuntu. In 'a blog entry titled Bansheegeddon,' Banshee and Mono developer Joseph Michael Shields says the reasons given for the change are that Banshee is 'not well maintained' and 'porting music store to GTK3 is blocked on banshee ported to GTK3.' Other reasons mentioned but not in the session logs are complaints that it doesn't work on ARM. Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon pointed out in a blog post that the decision to drop Banshee, Mono or other apps that are dependent on Mono has not been finalized. But the blogosphere is lit up with speculation that this is a deliberate move to exclude Mono because of its emulation of Microsoft .NET."
If you are going to go down that road, then theres pretty much no one you can trust.
Plus Microsoft (and its so called "proxies") is much more likely to bring suite against parties which are implementing different languages - there's little reason to bring suite against a project which is spreading your own language around, when there are others potentially infringing on the same patents while implementing competing languages and ecosystems (see Sun vs MS first time round, and now Oracle vs Google for Dalvik).
On an unrelated note, to the infantile little turd who is wholesale modding bunches of my posts down as "-1 Troll" (unrelated posts, in groups of 5), grow up and get a life. Perhaps consider moving out of your parents basement and living a little.