Greetings all!
Given that there has been some turbulence on this risk over Mono
(namely the threat of patents and alleged censorship), I think it's
worth drawing attention to this post: The ECMA C# and CLI Standards
by Peter Galli
I got halfway through a project that would solve broadly the same
problems as your /etc/issue proposal. It faltered when Launchpad kept
attaching the blueprint to Drupal and the merge proposal didn't go anywhere.
The would-be blueprint is still available[1], the bug in Launchpad has
been
Ubuntu is a centralised entity. No external person can control e.g. why
we have a custom search in the home page of firefox by default. People
who can't tell the difference will keep using a different google, but
there is not even way to get some discussion around this (I tried in the
past).
I hope you get rid of MONO. only then can your reputations be restored.
I'm sorry... You want Ubuntu to drop a FOSS program because it's
developers are allegedly being problematic? I can't follow this train
of thought.
I don't think Mono is a particularly useful language myself, but
people are
there is proof posted in both articles
There are specific events pointed to. I don't think your realize the
severity of the accusations you're making (or supporting...). You are
accusing members of the FOSS community of deliberately censoring and
suppressing people. You are asking for people to
