06.20.08
Fedora Project Mitigates Mono Dependency
In a previous (and still ongoing) discussion it emerged that Fedora’s Live CD had removed Tomboy in its latest iteration. Tomboy has special significance to GNOME for reasons that were discussed here many times before, e.g. in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. Tomboy is a Mono application and it’s part of GNOME, which could — shall it be necessary — be complied without it.
Whether this latest omission from Fedora Live CD is deliberate or not, it would probably be hard to tell. Recently we saw also Fedora blocking Novell’s Moonlight.
Without Tomboy, new users will be less likely to depend — practically speaking — on Mono applications and store their data in them. █
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.
sombero-fedora said,
June 21, 2008 at 3:15 am
That should read ‘new users _of the Fedora Live-CD_ will be less likely to depend on Mono applications’…
Roy Schestowitz said,
June 21, 2008 at 4:02 am
’sombrero-fedora’ (with fake E-mail address),
Posted via anonymouse.org. Is that you, ‘eet’? Posting again using proxies and zombie PCs? You have already admitted to be using anonymouse.org.