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Posted in GNOME, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Mono, Novell, Patents at 10:30 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
“I hereby demand Microsoft in my Linux”
Summary: The Mono riddle begs for source of the claims of “demand”
ABOUT A week ago we showed that Mono was largely rejected by the Free software development community. There is another article on the subject right now. It says about C#:
=> Mono was largely rejected by the Free software development community | ↺ another article on the subject
Its use stands at – hold your breath – 1.24 percent, just one-hundredths of a percent more than assembly language.Mono, for the uninitiated, is an attempt by Miguel de Icaza, the co-founder of the GNOME desktop project and currently vice-president of Novell, to replicate parts of Microsoft’s .NET development environment as an open source project.Novell is the same company that signed a patent indemnification deal with Microsoft in November 2006, which gave the latter opportunities to spread FUD about Linux. The charges which were levelled have remained just that – unproven charges.
It is not only developers who neglect Mono and C#. Users too are seemingly fed up with it. Even before the FSF expressed its opposition, about three quarters of the readers of TuxMachines said "No" to Mono. Here is another sole voice responding to the issue:
=> FSF expressed its opposition | about three quarters of the readers of TuxMachines said "No" to Mono | ↺ another sole voice
GNOME in .NET? – Not on my desktop![...]I believe the weapon of Mono is to “get Linux users hooked” to the .net environment, always offering the superior and more mature version on the Windows platform. Just like when you first tried alcohol you would probably start off on lighter products until you acquired a taste for it, progressing later in life to liking stronger spirits. With Windows having the “definitive version” and users hooked or caught in the .net, Microsoft could effectively remove or hold to ransom the addiction of using .net from non-Windows users. Just an idea, but from a PR standpoint IMO it would seem far more viable than MONO being used to trick people into installing Microsoft patent infested code.
Novell’s Visual Studio copycat proceeds to embracing other languages and as we explained here before, MonoDevelop helps Windows [1, 2]. █
=> ↺ proceeds to embracing other languages | 1 | 2
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