Miguel, Mono and Microsoft
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| is Mono's role in the deal that of a hook to make customers write
| .NET applications because they can be run on Linux - only to find
| later on that they are armless or legless because of a change in
| the .NETspecifications, a change which Microsoft decides not to
| make public?
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| And here we have an individual who decides to replicate one of
| the proprietary company's development environments - for reasons
| best known to him alone - and keeps telling people that the reason
| he's doing it is so that he can pull people over from the
| proprietary company's side to his side!!!
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11081&Itemid=1091
Novell puts more resources in Mono.
Microsoft's Tech Summit: Redmond Still Trying To 'Get' Open-Source Software
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| "We didn't understand open source and didn't use the correct words back
| in 2005," said Bill Hilf, one of their head open source advocates.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070404/tc_cmp/198702233
Oh my god. "Advocate"? The guys spreads so much FUD about open source and
free software.
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