I don’t see what elaboration you’re asking for. SFLC issued a statement about Microsoft’s Moonlight covenant. Mono, for obvious reasons, doesn’t rely on that covenant and actively avoids Microsoft patents. So the statement about the covenant doesn’t tell you anything about SFLC’s opinion on Mono.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080528133529454

Note, though, that where they do have a worry, not only is the package not on discs they provide, but it’s also not in the repos.

“We don’t know for sure” that the core of the moon isn’t cheese.

(For those not in-the-know, gNewSense is the FSF-sponsored GNU/Linux distribution).

If Mono isn’t on the LiveCD I suggest that it’s rather more to do with trimming packages to fit into 660Mb with a variety of locales and languages than any FUD you’re throwing at it.

Just because you dismiss them simply because he works for Novell, doesn’t make his evidence untrue. Especially since any unaffiliated objective person can verify his proof.

Let’s take a look at history:

1. He wrote a blog entry about optimizing Mono’s I/O performance and discovered that in that particular case, it was faster than Java.

You badmouthed him saying that he was a liar. AlexH and Miles ran the tests and concluded that the numbers Mr. Steadfast gave were accurate.

Meanwhile, you refused to run the tests yourself, insisting that they were wrong and that anyone who ran the tests and found the data to be accurate were simply biased against Java.

2. There was another blog post he made about wishing he could have written a new IMAP backend/plugin/whatever for Evolution in C# because it would have saved him time and effort.

You posted your own article bashing him, GNOME, and Mono saying that Novell was forcing Mono into the core of GNOME.

Needless to say, you were once again proven to be wrong, not him.

3. He posted a blog entry debunking the myths about GNOME depending on Mono with factual evidence backing up his statements.

Once again, you were proven wrong.

Does anyone else see a pattern, here? Because I certainly do.

Roy is consistently proven wrong, again and again.

“No Mono in Fedora 10″ is obviously untrue, though. Whether or not it’s on which disc doesn’t seem clear, and even if it’s not in the default install that provides you precisely no legal protection. If it were otherwise, they would ship MP3 support etc.

http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/15/no-mono-in-fedora-10/
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/02/fedora-no-moonlight/

As you proved a few weeks ago, Roy doesn’t even comprehend a simple aspect of copyright law, nevermind something more complicated like patent law.