Comments on: Novell’s Mono and Microsoft’s Plot to Use Mono/.NET to ‘Punish’ GNU/Linux

By: chris

chris — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:25:06 +0000

I genuinely cannot see anything wrong with silverlight. There is already a firefox plugin (albeit, slightly buggy at the moment), and a open source version is in the works – they dont *have* to do that.

Its main competitor Adobe flash, isn’t exactly brilliant under linux anyway, nor is it open source.

By: Jose_X

Jose_X — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:39:56 +0000

Honestly, besides all the reasons to avoid dotnet and mono, giving code to Novell (or to any MS partner) is giving code to Microsoft to debut in a closed and integrated and better running fashion on Windows (at least if the comparison is to mono).

Why sweat out the code to have Microsoft leverage it against you and keep it closed? What do you get? Microsoft makes a pretty penny by helping to keep their monopolies strong. Novell makes a buck of course. .. and you get that fuzzy feeling inside.

All companies dealing closely with Microsoft (eg, Citrix that bought out Xen Source) should have their interesting FOSS projects forked, if possible, the sooner the better.

By: eet

eet — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:59:09 +0000

In your dreams, baby... Note: comment has been flagged for arriving from an incarnation of a known (eet), pseudonymous, forever-nymshifting, abusive Internet troll that posts from open proxies and relays around the world.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:23:28 +0000

I can’t understand why people lurk in this site just because they hate it. Good riddance to eet by the way. He went elsewhere.

By: Victor Soliz

Victor Soliz — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:28:53 +0000

Again dodging the main argument.

By: stolwit

stolwit — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:58:51 +0000

> he might — just might — be with SUSE.

God; don’t forget to put on your tinfoil-hat you nerd!

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:21:00 +0000

stolwit has always been aggressive and his IP has me suspecting that he might — just might — be with SUSE.

It would be more effective to see our claims rebutted. Insults just make it seem like our claims cannot be challenged.

By: Victor Soliz

Victor Soliz — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:11:57 +0000

Again with the aggressiveness, any specific reason you need to trivialize our claims? Specifically mine, Novell does reserve the right to make proprietary, or do you think MONO’s own FAQ comes from conspiracy theorists?
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I still have my yahoo mail account, I use it to register to random sites that require email so it is always full of spam.

By: stolwit

stolwit — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:12:35 +0000

You guys are nothing but freaking nutters! I cannot believe (honestly) what amounts and qualities of shit your brains seem to be able to produce at will. I’m fucking amazed.

By: CoolGuy

CoolGuy — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:58:14 +0000

same here. i have stopped using my yahoo mail accounts..and switched to gmail.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:19:59 +0000

I have been told (in private) by more than one knowledgeable person that — in the long term — Microsoft could buy Novell, especially if it goes cheap. Market cap is declining.

In a sense, boycotting Novell could — just could — be similar to a case of prematurely boycotting Yahoo and — by association — Microsoft (don’t think ‘Microsoft Linux’ just yet) . After last week’s report about renewed merger negotiations between the two companies I dropped all my Yahoo RSS feeds (almost 15 of them).

By: Victor Soliz

Victor Soliz — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:59:27 +0000

I am starting to think Novell itself could be a bigger threat than whatever patent claim MS could make.

Based on the “Novell can re-license your code at will” part of the MONO FAQ, I think this is very dangerous and a more actual problem than probable abuse by MS.