Ubuntu's Mono Booster Calls it “Monobuntu”
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-05-27 06:08:40 UTC
- Modified: 2009-05-27 06:08:40 UTC

Turning stereo to mono, with Banshee
Summary: Tracking attempts to push Banshee into Ubuntu by default
AS THEY try to insert the Novell-owned, Mono-based media player into Ubuntu, promoters of Mono would even call it "Monobuntu" now. Here are some notes.
There is no Banshee in Karmic (for now) and there is no response yet to
the concern that ECMA is not being responsive. Specifically to Jo Shields,
Jose_X writes.
Jo, realize that following a standard created by a patent aggressor is a LIABILITY not an asset. Stop trumpeting mono's adherence to the two dotnet specs as an asset. It's the opposite.
There are some more interesting comments
right here. Mono is resented for the trouble it brings.
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"There is a substantive effort in open source to bring such an implementation of .Net to market, known as Mono and being driven by Novell, and one of the attributes of the agreement we made with Novell is that the intellectual property associated with that is available to Novell customers."
--Bob Muglia, Microsoft President