Comments on: Mono Advocacy is Deluded, Avoids the Facts and Personally Attacks Critics Instead http://techrights.org/2010/11/11/mono-associated-risk/ 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: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2010/11/11/mono-associated-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-103833 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:34:28 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=41780#comment-103833 Watch what Novell has been doing today. Sometimes it seems like Microsoft just bought them:

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Nov-11.html
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODc3OQ

]]> By: twitter http://techrights.org/2010/11/11/mono-associated-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-103832 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:28:57 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=41780#comment-103832 Anyone who does not think of Microsoft patents as a threat to free software should read my Microsoft patent extortion timeline. Microsoft spends billions of dollars portraying themselves as a friend and benefactor, unleashing your “unlimited potential” for example, and apologists often claim that Microsoft never sues anyone so the missunderstanding is common. Microsoft also worked through intermediaries, like SCO and Acacia.

Novel proves better than anyone else that Microsoft promisses are worthless. Notice how the company is still defending themselves against SCO and how Acacia sued them even after Novel made their infamous deal with Microsoft. It is particularly ironic that Novel employes so many Mono defenders because the company has been practically destroyed by Microsoft while other free software companies like Red Hat have grown and profited despite fighting.

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