Summary: Not everything which is FOSS necessary becomes, by virtue of existence, a positive contribution, as we are constantly reminded by projects that help proprietary software and/or restrictions get a strong grip on FOSS

THE word is out that Mono booster Seif Lotfy has just joined the Microsoft Trojan horse best known as Ximian/Novell/Xamarin -- the company where Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza uses financial support from Microsoft to infect everything (not just FOSS) with .NET. This is yet another recruitment which helps reinforce our suspicions about the goals of Xamarin.

Meanwhile, suggests this post from a UEFI 'secure' boot apologist, "a significant proportion of existing systems can probably have their Secure Boot implementation circumvented."

So why support them in the first place? We have already shown several ways of breaking 'secure' boot and even remotely vendalising entire motherboards using 'secure' boot. Both Mono and 'secure' boot deserve to be dropped into the digital wastebasket. Their outcome is harm to FOSS and to computing in general. ⬆