Quick Mention: Novell's Mono Evolves and Approaches Evolution

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2008-02-27 11:16:10 UTC
Modified: 2008-02-27 11:16:10 UTC

It was a few months ago that Miguel de Icaza spoke abut the possibility of Mono extensions for Evolution. Consider the following an important update from him:

"Update: Jeff wrote an add-in for MonoDevelop to do Evolution plugins in C#."

It seems like the gradual evolution of GNOME. The issue here is that it's a route to dependency where a crucial application (already used by many) is involved. People become 'hooked' on plugins.

See this hours-old post for more information about our concern. Evolution is Free software. Let's not turn into to Fee software. ⬆

A bad penguin -- Novell

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CoolGuy

2008-02-27 13:52:20

http://tirania.org/blog//texts/patents.html

Microsoft has granted RAND+Royalty Free licenses to any patents they might own that are required to implement the ECMA 334/335 standards. So at least our core VM, classes and compilers are safe from any litigation from *Microsoft*.

When did they say that ?
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

2008-02-27 14:46:28

They said it in here:

http://www.microsoft.com/interop/principles/osspatentpledge.mspx

Where they also redefine OpenSource to be: 0. non commercial 1. freely redistributed 2. freely modified 3. source code published
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

2008-02-27 14:47:29

Which makes Miguel, what? I have a word for that...
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

2008-02-27 14:48:54

Might begin with 'Se', ends in 'Out' and has 'll-' in the middle, but I don't promise this is what I'm thinking about...
Roy Schestowitz

2008-02-27 14:53:27

Rui, I've just posted this clarification.
Mark Fink

2008-03-01 20:47:27

Figures that Jeff Waugh lied about how GNOME would never depend on Mono.

Quick Mention: Novell's Mono Evolves and Approaches Evolution

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