Comments on: Invasion Into the Open Source World Continues, Introducing New Obstacles http://techrights.org/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: MarcKark http://techrights.org/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/comment-page-2/#comment-7409 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:40:15 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/#comment-7409 Yes, and that would allow developers (open- and closed-source alike) to easily develop for both Windows and Linux and MacOSX. Horrible idea, isn’t it. Where would the good ole’ OS-Wars go?

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/comment-page-2/#comment-7394 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:56:23 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/#comment-7394 Yes, that’s part of the problem. Microsoft wants to make .NET the de facto (or only) platform for development, for the Web, etc.

]]> By: Victor Soliz http://techrights.org/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/comment-page-1/#comment-7393 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:53:26 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/#comment-7393

They are already advertizing banshee as cooler than gnome

*totem.

I am starting to think the problem is not with gnome depending on MONO but rather than they will now target the MONO platform instead of Linux.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/comment-page-1/#comment-7391 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:50:42 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/#comment-7391 Wait until someone like Waugh sneaks in to say that you can remove the media player and install something which is no longer maintained (and therefore GNOME will never depend on Mono). My guess is that we’ll be seeing more of this — a case where everyone boosts the Mono applications at the expense of non-Mono applications. That’s the concern anyway.

]]> By: Victor Soliz http://techrights.org/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/comment-page-1/#comment-7387 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:12:10 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/#comment-7387 They are already advertizing banshee as cooler than gnome, in ubuntuforums there was a thread about how great banshee was, I tried to place my complaints about how a bad idea it is to make multimedia depend on MONO, but my post and subsequent reactions eventually got moved out of the banshee advertisement thread.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/comment-page-1/#comment-7367 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:37:42 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/#comment-7367 We really ought to set of up a list of projects or an index of posts with links to projects that are blindly falling for it. In the same vein, there are many Mono-defendant project that become so dependent without users (sometimes even developers) realising it. I think Cheese is an example of this. I saw an article about it earlier today and it seems to be getting a dominant/de facto Web cam application for GNOME. Also, earlier today I came to discover that Banshee (also Mono-based, not just ‘dependent’) is getting video capabilities.

]]> By: Victor Soliz http://techrights.org/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/comment-page-1/#comment-7365 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:30:51 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/30/open-source-lured-in/#comment-7365 This is actually disgusting, MS is effectively hijacking an OS project to trick it into using a proprietary language and a proprietary database server, this is terrible news. Guess MS will take advantage of these dynamic languages to force .net on apps that did not want that crap.

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