Comments on: Ubuntu’s Mono Booster Calls it “Monobuntu” http://techrights.org/2009/05/27/monobuntu-coined/ 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: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/05/27/monobuntu-coined/comment-page-1/#comment-64655 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:34:14 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11535#comment-64655 We don’t agree with OIN’s approach.

]]> By: RimZi http://techrights.org/2009/05/27/monobuntu-coined/comment-page-1/#comment-64654 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:31:22 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11535#comment-64654 OK, but can you then comment on Open Invention Network?
(http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/)

AFAIK, it now lists Mono as a protected project somewhere.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/05/27/monobuntu-coined/comment-page-1/#comment-64650 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:03:49 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11535#comment-64650 Several points ought to be raised:

1) Microsoft need not sue. Extortion is not the same as lawsuits, but it is related (ultimatums).
2) Mono is a framework for building many applications, not just one.
3) You cannot work around .NET patents. It’s an interface.
4) Wine is rarely included in distributions by default
5) Wine does not encourage GNU/Linux developers to build .EXE files. It is more to do with running ‘legacy’ applications after a migration.
6) You parrot the unsubstantiated claim of “200 patent infringements” in Linux. If there were 200, why didn’t Microsoft use these against TomTom, which uses a fairly standard kernel?
7) Attacking vendors is not the same as attacking users or developers. This is why distributors should not include Mono by default. They expose themselves.

]]> By: RimZi http://techrights.org/2009/05/27/monobuntu-coined/comment-page-1/#comment-64642 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:41:22 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11535#comment-64642 There is no reason to believe that users (developers) of mono will be sued for patent infringement.

That probability of sucha a fact is the same as:

1) Suing Wine for Win32 Patent infringement (there are many)
2) Suing OpenOffice for office patent infringements
3) Suing Linux for those 200 patent infringements
4) Suing about any non-microsoft software out there for patent-infringement

Please, stop spreading FUD. If Microsoft sues someone in the open-source world, it will most likely result in full-fledged all-out patent war, including the likes of IBM and other linux-friendly software corporations.

Cheers,
RimZi

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2009/05/27/monobuntu-coined/comment-page-1/#comment-64089 Wed, 27 May 2009 06:56:04 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11535#comment-64089 Someone needs to sit down and have a beer with Mark Shuttleworth, after slapping him (lightly) upside the head, and set him to cleaning house. Something went seriously wrong in that Jo Shields was granted MOTU.

It’s easier to keep a clean house clean than to clean up a mess after it’s happened. Bringing in mono, or worse, mono proponents brings the mess by the bucket.

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/110/

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