SUSE Linux to be Powered by More Microsoft .NET?
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-10-29 15:01:19 UTC
- Modified: 2008-10-29 15:01:19 UTC
Assimilate or be shunned
Pascal Bleser, who has just been elected for the OpenSUSE Board (he won by a good majority in fact), clearly seems to be defending and almost welcoming Mono in his blog. It probably would be surprising had he expressed the opposite opinion because Novell is funding Mono-based projects, promoting Tomboy even for proprietary platforms and sponsoring Banshee, which replaces perfectly-fine applications that are free from Microsoft technology.
Ryan Paul
still defends this too, as he
typically does. Why the apathy? They simply help the Microsoft API (along with
associated software patents) penetrate a Free platform. Bleser admits that Java is a decent option, so why does he join Novell's Java opposers [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5]?
It's an open question.
Elsewhere in the news, it's being suggested that
Netflix will deliver to GNU/Linux... but only provided that the user accepts unacceptable risks like Silverlight.
Soon, with the aid of Silverlight's integrated PlayReady DRM, Intel-based Mac users will be able to stream their chosen content.
Too bad
there's no Silverlight for GNU/Linux, eh? Maybe the
legally-unsafe Moonlight from Novell will bring DRM too. That would not surprise because
Novell does not care about freedom and we have been speaking for quite some time about the possibility that Novell will bring DRM to its desktop.
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"Our partnership with Microsoft continues to expand."
--Ron Hovsepian, Novell CEO
Comments
stevetheFLY
2008-10-29 16:12:28
Get a job, man...
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Needs Sunlight
2008-10-29 16:38:05
Others, who may have grown up on the believe that the sun rises and sets from Bill's ass, may find the names of the good packages useful to know.
If you want to promote something, name it. You've provided a push. Now point to the destination.
stevetheFLY
2008-10-29 16:40:00
How about adding another two or three lines to the defammations and using a Hexamter? You could also make tasteful use of different colors.
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Roy Schestowitz
2008-10-29 17:06:23
It would be easier if there were static pages or a list of links to point to. Other than that, I agree that it would not be too much of a distraction/clutter.
pcole
2008-10-29 17:40:44
Roy Schestowitz
2008-10-29 17:45:00
Jeremy
2008-10-29 18:35:16
They do not fund Tomboy. Sandy Armstrong, while a Novell engineer, does not work on Tomboy as part of his day job. His job at Novell is a11y.
Tomboy is his personal project that he works on in his own free time.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-10-29 18:39:48
Don't forget Mono and Moonlight.
Yes, I know. I wrote promote, not fund.