01.30.08
Novell’s Mono Seen as Controversial
Our previous post talked about patents versus Free software and the following new article describes Mono as a case of “Embracing the .Beast” (.NET, which has patents). And yes, it’s all about Mono again. Mono is a Novell project that gets its tentacles around many other GNU/Linux distributions. With Silverlight out there, it might even be impossible to avoid (Mono-based Moonlight is the only workaround).
Mono allows programmers to program in Visual Basic on Linux and run their applications on Windows, or develop in C# on Windows and run their applications on Linux, but remains a controversial addition to the Linux developers’ arsenal.
We last wrote about the Mono problem just a couple of days ago. █
Related articles:
- OpenSolaris, Gobuntu, and be careful who you kiss
- Miguel, Mono and Microsoft
- Red Hat Doesn’t Want Mono
- Who would use Mono now?
Credit: beranger.org
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Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.
Victor Soliz said,
January 30, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I dunno about .beast could try .ent or .nt I dunno let’s tinker about this.