On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 10:36 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: > Tonnerre has blogged that the GNOME project has decided to rely on Mono: > http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/tonnerre/stdout/gnome_goes_mono_and_jumps_into_the_patent_trap
Based on a 2004 story by OSNews?! Come on. Mono is usable in GNOME, and GNOME comes with Mono bindings. You can use GNOME without any Mono whatsoever. I know blogging doesn't require research, but, y'know... > When the only person telling us to not worry about Microsoft's patents is a > Novell employee, I worry. Does anyone know if the danger has really been > avoided or if there is some published explanation/criticism of this? Red Hat previously were worried about mono, now they ship it by default. Might be worth asking them. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
