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Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Mono, Novell, Ubuntu at 9:16 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Mono blogs that require Mono (and Moonlight) for their content to be viewed – is this the future?
THE Mono club probably enjoys a share of privacy because the outside world is not a fan of Mono (neither users nor developers). Critics of Mono will probably be further obstructed by blog content not accessible for those without Silverlight (or Mono and Moonlight). Check this one out for example. A page on “open source” says the visitor should “Install Microsoft Silverlight”.
=> the outside world is not a fan of Mono | neither users nor developers | ↺ Mono | ↺ Moonlight | ↺ this one out for example
Can the Mono proponents not realise that they turn the World Wide Web into the Microsoft Web? Have they learned nothing from ActiveX or even DirectX?
“DirectX only exists in order to keep new games from reaching your platform and to move graphics off your platform,” told us a reader last night. “The only way you can fight back is to support applications that use OpenGL.”
“Continue using strong, reliable, open source languages like Java, Python, C++ and abandon these ‘experiments’ with Mono.” –Anonymous readerHe continues: “Hmm. Now that puts into a very new light the maneuvers by the Mono crowd to remove the essential graphics tool, GIMP, out of the base distro for Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx. You have a push to inject defective, Microsoft-owned softare into the distro, and a push to remove working graphics from the distro. What’ll happen next? A push to inject a MS Mono-based, DirectX-using flop like MS Paint.Net?
“Put Gimp back into the distro. Continue using the standard OpenGL instead of lower quality, proprietary DirectX. Continue using strong, reliable, open source languages like Java, Python, C++ and abandon these ‘experiments’ with Mono.
“Jono’s experiment to allow Microsofters into the Ubuntu project may have been big hearted, but it was also foolish and ruins the usefulness of the finished product Ubuntu.”
Meanwhile, we also find that Novell asks customers to get “ready for Windows 7″ (Vista 7) and licences are being changed. Marcel Hilzinger reports:
=> ↺ get “ready for Windows 7″ | ↺ Vista 7 | ↺ licences are being changed
License Change at Novell Adds ConfusionThe recent mail from Novell titled “Upcoming maintenance requirement to access patches and service packs for select Novell products” only adds confusion for Linux customers. As it turns out, nothing much has changed.
Novell is probably a lost company as managers are fleeing and losses exceed $200,000,000 for the past year alone. Other GNU/Linux vendors, such as Canonical, should not be led to repeating Novell's mistake. █
=> probably a lost company | managers are fleeing | losses exceed $200,000,000 for the past year alone | repeating Novell's mistake
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