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Why Google Should Yank MonoDroid

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Summary: Yanking Mono from android would be Google's next logical step; Vista Phony 7 update tool yanked

GOOGLE uses Dalvik inside Android. It relies to a certain degree on the success of Java, even though SCOracle is suing Google for its use of Dalvik.



Neil Richards, a Mono critic whom we mentioned before, writes about what he calls "Mono's Commercial Attack On Android" and explains it as follows:

Microsoft has been defeated by GNU/Linux avers The Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. But, there are Microsoft partners like Novell (and Mono) which will not give up so easily.

Mono team continues to bombard the free software world with Microsoft's C# language and .Net implementation. Unfortunately, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has become an unaware puppet playing as proxy friend of Microsoft by making Banshee the default music player of Ubuntu. It means a hell lot of Mono will be pre-intsalled on your Ubuntu machine.

Every bit of Mono on my computer means hours of developer's time wasted working on growing opium crops [Mono] of Microsoft. The dangers are more than we see at the surface. The more Ubuntu uses Banshee or Mono, the more stronghold Microsoft will find in the Linux world – a world Microsoft fantasizes of destroying.

I have no problem with Banshee as music player, I appreciate the hard work done by the developers. I have problems with its base – C# and .Net. I don't want Microsoft to be in control of major applications that I use on the Linux devices. I can't trust Microsoft -- the repeated assaults on Linux companies -- latest being Barns & Nobel -- proves nothing has changed in Microsoft's DNA. The company is and will always remain anti-competition.


Google ought to just yank MonoDroid [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15], which pollutes Android with Microsoft code, APIs, and patent traps. Here is how Microsoft handles dubious software on its platform which very few people actually use:

Developer yanks unauthorized Windows Phone 7 update tool



[...]

Just hours after launching a tool that let Windows Phone 7 owners grab smartphone updates directly from Microsoft, the developer yanked the utility from his Web site.

[...]

Last week, a Microsoft executive apologized for the fiasco and acknowledged that customers were right to be angry. "We didn't set out to let you down. But it's clear we did," said Eric Hautala, the general manager of Windows Phone 7's customer experience engineering team, in a March 30 blog entry.

[...]

"Be careful when using unofficial hacker tools," Prengel said, according to a translation of his original message in German. "They can put the phone in an undefined state [making] the installation of future updates impossible. Use at your own risk -- neither Microsoft nor the device manufacturer or network operator assume liability for the consequences."


It may be interesting to find out if Microsoft threatened the developer somehow. We may never know, but it got yanked, just as Microsoft had hoped.

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