On Dec 15, 8:56 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > On Dec 13, 10:29 pm, "[H]omer" <s...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
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> >> > Perhaps keep it as an option, but maybe not included by default?
> >> > Software patents do not apply outside of Nafta and Australia, so
> >> > there's no particular issue for the rest of us.
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> >> Other than the fact that .NET is utterly superfluous, supports part of
> >> Microsoft's quest for continued domination, poisons the Free Software
> >> community with Microsoft's broken development paradigm, dilutes Free
> >> Software development resources by encouraging developers to waste time
> >> bug-fixing Windows clients, divides the Free Software community into
> >> partisan groups who waste time arguing about patents rather than
> >> working, diverts development away from Java (just as it was designed to
> >> do, as a slap in the face to Sun for their MS litigation, and a means of
> >> "controlling" virtual machine technology, discouraging fully compatible
> >> cross-platform development), and may (at some time in the future) help
> >> to support Microsoft's claims of "IP infringement" in GNU/Linux (since
> >> not *all* parties who develop with Mono can know *exactly* what is or is
> >> not covered by the ECMA RAND "guarantee" - such as it is).
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> > So stop arguing about it. Stop posting about it. Start developing in
> > Java. Download something else besides Ubuntu. Nothing about the
> > inclusion of Mono forces anyone to develop .net code. If it's such a
> > bad fucking thing, then don't use it. Freedom of choice.
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> I don't know if you're in a trollish mood today, but I'll just respond by
> adding that Mono is increasingly being forcefed, with de Icaza, a Microsoft
> employee (fed by Novell, which is in turn fed by Microsoft), building
> Moonlight and OOXML translators using it. He helps Microsoft makes those
> anti-standards more commonplace so that people have to resort to Mono, which
> is a patent timebomb (hello, hello... Novell has Mono 'protection', but you
> have to pay Microsoft tax for SLED/S).
Being forcefed to who though? People who *choose* to use SLED? I think
interoperability is a good thing, but if it's such a big deal for you,
then use a different distro.
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