[Fedora-legal-list] Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matej Cepl wrote: His point was that thousands of line of hardly obfuscated Javascript (think Google Docs) is hard to recognize from binary-only distribution, which I can see as pretty good argument. Right. The point isn't really about JavaScript the language, but about its integration into

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: Saying mono is evil while having DotGNU seems odd to me (http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/) He also recommends against using DotGNU to develop your new Free Software in (because of the same patent risk as for Mono). I'm not familiar with the JavaScript story, but if he really

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/29/2009 08:49 PM, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: drago01 wrote: Another don't use $LANGUAGE because its evil post from RMS. So what? His concerns are real. Depends on how you read them and whether you agree with him or not. And for most cases I