Comments on: Canonical Neglects Tomboy (Mono) http://techrights.org/2013/02/09/tombye/ 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: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2013/02/09/tombye/comment-page-1/#comment-134228 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:59:38 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=66203#comment-134228 A lot of money has gone into Xamarin. Something bad will come out of it and it will be a lot of work to stop and clean up.

]]> By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2013/02/09/tombye/comment-page-1/#comment-134227 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:01:52 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=66203#comment-134227 Mono was created after Miguel had pursued a job at Microsoft. It was also prominently worked on by Nat (Friedman), who had worked for Microsoft. Now they are CTO and CEO at Xamarain, funded by a VC of former Microsoft executives. Two says ago, Christine Assange wrote: “My father always said: “You can generally understand a situation by applying the self interest test…who benefits?””

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2013/02/09/tombye/comment-page-1/#comment-134226 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:55:05 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=66203#comment-134226 Mono was marketed, disingenuously I believe, as a means to bring people and products off of M$ Windows. That was the official story. The reality, which many warned of in advance, was that it was instead used to infect and subvert many open source projects and bring dependence on M$ technology to these otherwise Free projects. Good riddance to mono, its removal can’t happen fast enough.

Too bad that end user got stung. There were two mistakes. One was not making backups often enough. The other was not looking out for hamfisted M$-style maneuvers. When a project is afflicted with the M$ way of thinking, the users will get stung. It’s just a matter of time.

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