Comments on: Silverlight and Mono = DRM and Software Patents http://techrights.org/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/ 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: jo Shields http://techrights.org/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/comment-page-3/#comment-48562 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:06:46 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/#comment-48562 Moonlight 1.0 doesn’t use Mono in any way, shape, or form. But I know how much you hate reality.

The odf-converter, an obsolete plugin to allow Windows users to work with ODF rather than OOXML, uses bundled Mono – meaning it’s essentially no different from a user perspective to a C-based app. Using Mono is a programmer convenience. It doesn’t “spread” Mono any more than a static app “spreading” libc6. But I know how much you hate reality.

And more to the point, do you even know whether this “OOXML SDK” *works* on Mono? It may well be full of Windows-only P/Invokes. Making it useless to non-Windows platforms and Mono users alike.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/comment-page-2/#comment-48559 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:57:10 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/#comment-48559 You are missing the point entirely. Novell uses projects like these to spread Mono. The converter is one example, another being Moonlight

]]> By: jo Shields http://techrights.org/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/comment-page-2/#comment-48557 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:54:07 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/#comment-48557 THERE ISN’T ONE

You’re seriously claiming that writing a library in a language counts as an insidious black mark?

I heard people write trojans and rootkits in C. Obviously GCC’s support for rootkits should be investigated.

You really do make yourself out to be a complete fruitcake sometimes, Roy

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/comment-page-2/#comment-48555 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:50:09 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/#comment-48555 The Mono-OOXML connection.

]]> By: jo Shields http://techrights.org/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/comment-page-2/#comment-48552 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:41:31 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/#comment-48552 What am I dodging, exactly?

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/comment-page-2/#comment-48548 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:36:56 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/#comment-48548 No, you’re dodging the Mono thing. I haven’t yet addressed your second question.

]]> By: jo Shields http://techrights.org/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/comment-page-1/#comment-48546 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:33:23 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/#comment-48546 Apology? Huh? You’re still talking shit!

You’re asserting that adding ODF support to MSOffice is “OOXML support”?

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/comment-page-1/#comment-48542 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:23:14 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/#comment-48542 Oh boy!

How the goalposts have moved.

You totally changed the subject after being proven wrong. Can I please have my apology?

]]> By: jo Shields http://techrights.org/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/comment-page-1/#comment-48538 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:12:09 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/#comment-48538 odf-converter is a plugin for Microsoft Office, to output ODF files. It’s nowhere near as useful as Sun’s equivalent – and it remains to be seen what Microsoft’s support in Office 2K7SP2 will be like. Third parties who want to verify that can read http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/

By “Novell’s support for OOXML” what you actually mean is “Novell’s support for ODF”. No, wait, sorry. The REALITY is “Novell’s support for ODF”, you definitely MEANT to lie

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/comment-page-1/#comment-48534 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:53:14 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/#comment-48534 Please stop making accusations.

http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-OdfConverter-p15020575.html

“Novell builds odf-converter using Mono, and distributes it as a so-called bundled executable (platform-specific executable that includes the Mono runtime, i.e. not a platform-independent managed .NET executable) for Linux and Windows.“

]]> By: jo Shields http://techrights.org/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/comment-page-1/#comment-48529 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:09:05 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/21/silverlight-and-mono-drm-ipr/#comment-48529 Hey, an old post. With old lies. “Remember that Novell’s support for OOXML is done using Mono” is simply a lie. Roy lying? Shock horror!

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