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SpeC#ulation: Tipping Point for GNOME?

MS-GNOME.NET, anybody?

Two completely independent warning shots were sent to us an hour ago by folks whose name shall remain undisclosed. The first is a pointer to this GNOME announcement stating "not sure what 'special rules' means, but I thought you might find it interesting." It seems to be about dbus, which we wrote about before [1, 2, 3, 4]. The second, which refers to a more recent observation, bears the subject line "Munchkins invading GTK+." It says: "The GTK+ start page no longer mentions the major development tool, Java, now that it is open source, instead pushing a proprietary substitute..."

      http://www.gtk.org/

      http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.html

Regarding Debian GNU/Linux, which this reader uses, he adds: "it is important to find out [if more evidence exist]. I hope it does not mean that Debian is breaking its famous Debian Social Contract to allow mono and mono-carrying developers to infect Debian projects. The social contract is one of Debian's great strengths.

"As the Microsoft barge sinks the bailers are not just bailing their own boat, but tipping the water into other people's boats. de Icaza and other Microsoft reps are working as fast as they can to contaminate as many projects as they can with Microsoft technologies. On the technical side, it will make the distros more bloated, inefficient and cumbersome. On the legal side, it will make easy pickings for Microsoft lawyers in the trade zones where software patents apply."

Looking at the cache as supporting evidence, our reader adds: "I looked at archive.org, but it's next most recent version is from August 2007. Java is, as you point out, listed in last week's Google cache, but not on the start page. Instead Microsoft C# is being promoted."

Can anybody shed light on this? Will GNOME promote Microsoft technologies at the expense of open source Java and C++?

Mono is the devil

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