Quote of the Day: Slashdot Users on Novell's Mono in GNOME
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-01-31 02:37:50 UTC
- Modified: 2008-01-31 02:37:50 UTC
Mono has returned to some people's attention. Last week, for example, an IBM Vice President
rejected Mono. We wrote about other Mono problems just
a couple of days ago. It seems as though we are not the only ones who are concerned. Here are some new comments from Slashdot. They appeared
in reference to an article about GNOME: [hat tip:
Planète Béranger]
Removed .NET yet? (Score:5, Insightful)
[...]
Any chance that they've removed the dependency on Microsoft's patented .NET technologies via Mono?
(Yes, I know you can manually remove bits of the Gnome environment to get rid of Mono; but the Gnome environment by default includes Mono.)
The reply is equally interesting:
Re:Removed .NET yet? (Score:4)
[...]
As a business user you can be fined under sarbines Oxley for running pirated and unlicensed software. MS could make that case that the user didn't pay a licensing fee to MS to use Gnome and .NET.
That alone is fud and can scare many managers away from using non MS products thanks to the whole split within the linux community.
The second comment comes from the user "Billly Gates", so it is somewhat sarcastic. It does, however, contain an element of truth because it gives insight into Microsoft's ideas. Remember that Mono is a Novell project.
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Comments
Woods
2008-01-31 12:07:09
I find this worrying because it is a Mono-implementation of D-Bus, which I would consider a core-technology for the desktop (and I for one am not laughing over the "libdbus should be put out of its misery"-comments from GUADEC '07 (http://www.atoker.com/dbus/managed-dbus-guadec07.pdf))
For example (from Gnome Live! for Gnome 2.22) the GDM (display manager) is listed with "Redesign of GDM so that it makes use of D-Bus for all interprocess communications."
I never thought Miguel's plans for a whole C#-implementation of Gnome would actually turn into reality...
Hopefully I'm worrying over nothing here...
Roy Schestowitz
2008-01-31 12:19:29
Great
2008-02-10 17:43:33