Comments on: Reddit Accommodated by Mono Boosters, Including Novell Employees http://techrights.org/2009/05/27/reddit-novell-employees/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: twitter http://techrights.org/2009/05/27/reddit-novell-employees/comment-page-1/#comment-64161 twitter Thu, 28 May 2009 06:18:59 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11639#comment-64161 No sensible person is a mono fan. Pragmatic people use languages for their feature sets and ease of use. Others languages have Mono beat hands down. People who worry about freedom would not touch mono or it's corporate backers with a 10 foot pole. So there are very few people who are mono users and even fewer of them motivated to speak out in public about it. <a href="http://slashdot.org/~twitter/journal/204737" rel="nofollow">Astroturfing</a>, on the other hand, is a widespread practice of dishonest and failing companies. No sensible person is a mono fan. Pragmatic people use languages for their feature sets and ease of use. Others languages have Mono beat hands down. People who worry about freedom would not touch mono or it’s corporate backers with a 10 foot pole. So there are very few people who are mono users and even fewer of them motivated to speak out in public about it.

Astroturfing, on the other hand, is a widespread practice of dishonest and failing companies.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/05/27/reddit-novell-employees/comment-page-1/#comment-64129 Roy Schestowitz Wed, 27 May 2009 22:42:21 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11639#comment-64129 <a href="http://tim.thechases.com/mononono/" rel="nofollow">Mononono</a> is a tool that may be of interest to some. Mononono is a tool that may be of interest to some.

]]> By: Mikko http://techrights.org/2009/05/27/reddit-novell-employees/comment-page-1/#comment-64121 Mikko Wed, 27 May 2009 21:27:16 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11639#comment-64121 all mono apps gets removed when you uninstall mono all mono apps gets removed when you uninstall mono

]]> By: reece http://techrights.org/2009/05/27/reddit-novell-employees/comment-page-1/#comment-64120 reece Wed, 27 May 2009 18:18:47 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11639#comment-64120 Mono Accessibility - LOL. The UI Automation API is a Microsoft accessibility API that was written for Vista. It is unclear if MS have any patents relating to this API, and why provide this in Mono anyway? So that more programs can run? Accessibility APIs should either be used by the screen readers or other assistive technologies (and what Linux-based screen readers use UI Automation?) or by testing frameworks (which are used as part of the test cycle). A more productive approach would be to implement support for the IAccessible2 (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/IAccessible2) APIs -- which, although are mased on Microsoft's MSAA interfaces at least have backing from the Linux foundation and will be available from applications like Open Office and Firefox (I haven't checked to see if they are available from Linux, though). Alternatively, since this is the Gnome project, where is the support for the Gnome accessibility APIs (unless this is already implemented, in which case supporting UI Automation is pointless)? I also like the jstedfast quote -- so when does closed-source software give you access to the source code? Mono Accessibility – LOL. The UI Automation API is a Microsoft accessibility API that was written for Vista. It is unclear if MS have any patents relating to this API, and why provide this in Mono anyway? So that more programs can run?

Accessibility APIs should either be used by the screen readers or other assistive technologies (and what Linux-based screen readers use UI Automation?) or by testing frameworks (which are used as part of the test cycle).

A more productive approach would be to implement support for the IAccessible2 (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/IAccessible2) APIs — which, although are mased on Microsoft’s MSAA interfaces at least have backing from the Linux foundation and will be available from applications like Open Office and Firefox (I haven’t checked to see if they are available from Linux, though).

Alternatively, since this is the Gnome project, where is the support for the Gnome accessibility APIs (unless this is already implemented, in which case supporting UI Automation is pointless)?

I also like the jstedfast quote — so when does closed-source software give you access to the source code?

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