Here is my answer.

“And Dan is wrong.”

Nannynannybooboo.

DaemonFC says: right now, those libraries [Windows.Forms] are not included with the system Jun 07 19:22
DaemonFC says: so the discs have nothing illegal to distribute on them

As he noted a few lines up from there, Ubuntu already distributes Mono for Tomboy & F-Spot. His concern was that Banshee required Windows.Forms (it doesn’t) which would force Ubuntu to add Windows.Forms to the CD (it doesn’t).

Since Windows.Forms is not needed, there is no problem.

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I’m not sure which is worse. That I would have to go to such lengths to avoid your censorship and abuse or that you have wasted so much time, energy and money to be sure that I can’t. Really, little old me. Here’s a journal from 2004 where I announced my intention to create new accounts to get away from your abuse. It took me a few years to bother, I only did when your ability to game Slashdot was complete. You idiots lose both ways though. Did you really track me down from the millions of Slashdot users? I won’t give you the satisfaction of a confirmation or denial, but I continue to laugh at your failed efforts. All along, Slashdot regularly published my research and M$ has continued to flunk out in the market place. If anything, your persistent abuse pushed me to dig deeper, and publish ever more detailed and irrefutable evidence of M$’s criminality and incompetence. As Vista is M$’s biggest failure, the Vista Failure Log is one of my favorite research projects. I would never have bothered to write such a thing if it were not for nearly a decade of M$ crapping on my favorite news site and calling me a “cock gobbler”. Really, M$ took a whole generation of free software users and turned them into people who hate your company with a well reasoned passion. The epic troll has been an epic blunder. The sooner M$ fires each and every one of you, the better off everyone will be.

Umm. You do know that you can’t patent an API, right?

False.

Jose wrote an article to explain this.

You do realize that just because an API is named in an interoperable fashion, that doesn’t mean it infringes.

You might want to take four years off of your life and, you know, go to law school, or something.

He’s generally rude and full of obscenities, but last night he really shined as he and a few other nyms basically admitted they are here to troll and disrupt.

Ha, ha.

We wrote about this before.

Well, it’s the reason most of us are here. The DeamonFC troll is an interesting case in itself. He appeared with videos and a blog complaining about poor service from M$ and other M$ related OEM vendors to gain trust. Since, he’s steadily devolved to feeding the site nonsense, posting screen shots of his Vista computer, and complaining that Ubuntu is the worst thing to ever happen to computing. He’s generally rude and full of obscenities, but last night he really shined as he and a few other nyms basically admitted they are here to troll and disrupt. The only real question left about DaemonFC is if he’s getting his kicks as part of some kind of troll organization or sponsored by M$. The lengths M$ goes to manipulate the press and bully the world are truly outstanding.

Windows Forms is not part of the standard, so only Novell has permission to distribute that.

Since Banshee DOES NOT depend on Windows.Forms, that entire statement should be X’d out.