On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Roy wrote: > There are other decisions that could have been made. They could have removed > Mono and saved tons of disk space. In Brainstorm the removal of Mono gets > many more votes for than against. Yet it stays. You have to wonder why. There > are replacements for most Mono programmes except GNOME-Do which I suspect > most people don't use anyway. F-spot is the only one that people would miss > but I have already covered why it is useless anyway.
Simply put, Mono gives them corporate users migrating from .NET. It's a strategic decision. If a large corporation with 1,500 or even 10,000 workstations needs Mono, but not GIMP, they can save a lot of network traffic by bundling Mono by default. Corporate IT is usually unwilling to make their own custom installation media, so Canonical has to work to tailor their installation packages to reflect the largest cross section of their current and desired customers. Corporations and their beefy support contracts are going to be Canonical's bread and butter, so don't be surprised if other things that don't cater to the corporate user get thrown into the "install it yourself after installation" lifeboat. Registered Linux Addict #431495 For Faith and Family! | John 3:16! http://cmiller.fsdev.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
