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Posted in Microsoft, Mono, Novell at 11:40 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Mono and Moonlight are projects that one cannot ever criticise safely
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few days ago we wrote about Mono getting its own separate room at FOSDEM 2010. Someone else has commented briefly about the subject, only to be discouraged and even told off in public. Here is his story:
> Earlier today I was astonished to find out FOSDEM will have a MONO devroom. When I reacted to this on identica stating this was not a good idea. Reinout van Schouwen reacted saying “We should *strongly* support !freesoftware, no matter what platform it is written for or what language is used.”I pointed out to him that “”free” software can never be written in a non-free language”. I could have expected to get the typical MONO-evangelist’s answer: “Stop spreading #FUD, please. http://www.mono-project.com/Languages”, so I replied with a quote from MS: “Every piece of code written to our standards is a small victory”. Apparently Mr van Schouwen didn’t get my point and dragged dear old RMS into the discussion: “So you’d rather have no !freesoftware at all than FS written to MS standards? Even #RMS knows better than that.” and when I pointed out his mistake: “maybe you should read again and try to understand what I wrote…”, he quickly sent me a final message: “Maybe you should address facts and arguments instead of evading them with transparent rhetoric. #endofdiscussion”.[...]I hope to have given you a basic idea, Mr van Schouwen, about my personal opinion about MONO. Now, even if you disagree, would it be asked too much to respect my opinion?
Over at Mono-Nono, Jason has written extensively about Mono’s total disregard for people’s freedom of speech. It’s almost as though they rape anyone who dares to point out the obvious — that Mono is helping Microsoft, not Free software. Even the Free Software Foundation is against the use of C#.
Over at ComputerWorld UK (IDG), Glyn Moody has just written about SUSE, noting in part that SUSE’s affairs with Microsoft are not particularly helpful.
> This tacitly recognises the validity of Microsoft’s software patents, and strengthens the latter’s hand when dealing with other players in the open source world. Those patent problems have been exacerbated by the Mono project, “an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET”, which is sponsored by Novell, and led by Miguel de Icaza, who is employed by Novell.
He is not only employed by Novell. He also serves the board of a Microsoft foundation whose goal in part is to promote the use of Mono. Microsoft admitted this and it's part of a pattern. █
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