02.27.08
Quick Mention: Novell’s Mono Evolves and Approaches Evolution
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. █
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
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.
CoolGuy said,
February 27, 2008 at 8:52 am
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 said,
February 27, 2008 at 9:46 am
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 said,
February 27, 2008 at 9:47 am
Which makes Miguel, what? I have a word for that…
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra said,
February 27, 2008 at 9:48 am
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 said,
February 27, 2008 at 9:53 am
Rui, I’ve just posted this clarification.
Mark Fink said,
March 1, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Figures that Jeff Waugh lied about how GNOME would never depend on Mono.