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● 08.04.10

●● Novell’s Promotion of Mono and Visual Studio Tools Comes Under Scrutiny

Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Mono, Novell, OpenSUSE at 2:16 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Novell continues to advance Microsoft’s way of doing things and pro-GNU/Linux news sites think that it stinks

MAKER OF Mono, Novell Inc., is still hiring for OpenSUSE (as we showed last night, there is more than a single example), but Novell also uses OpenSUSE as a vector for putting Mono in other GNU/Linux distributions.

=> ↺ Mono | ↺ still hiring for OpenSUSE | we showed last night | uses OpenSUSE | a vector for putting Mono in other GNU/Linux distributions

There are certain Mono-based applications that are more problematic than others due to the limitations of the MCP. This week we have ECT covering GNOME Do, which is Mono based and thus should be avoided. Its developer actually works for Canonical.

=> the limitations of the MCP | ↺ ECT covering GNOME Do

In a new article titled “Trojan Alert: Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0,” the author warns that Mono is, well, a “trojan horse which Novell is planting in free software systems.” To quote in full:

=> ↺ new article

Mono has been severely criticized by the Free Software community and often dubbed at Microsoft’s trojan horse which Novell is planting in free software systems.

They are just trying to squash GNU/Linux and Java, by promoting substitutes to them, Visual Studio for example. Visual Studio is a Windows program. █

“Now it was time to annihilate a new competitor, and Gates wanted Eller for the job. [...] By February 1990, Eller’s group was partially staffed. They were already working on their first demo, and their mission was clear: Kill GO Corp. Raikes had said as much. Squashing the competition was not a written policy, but something woven into the ethos of Microsoft.”

–Barbarians Led by Bill Gates, a book composedby the daughter of Microsoft’s PR mogul

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