On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Max TenEyck Woodbury < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/31/2012 11:05 PM, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Max TenEyck Woodbury > > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>**> wrote: > > > > When did WINE start requiring MONO? > > > > I have a VERY strong DISLIKE for MONO and do NOT want it on my > machines. > > > > Seems to be a recent addition. Is it possible to NOT use it? PLEASE! > > > > > > > > First off, what is your beef with Mono? It's a decent technology that > > makes .NET available on non-Windows platforms. > > > > Secondly, the wine-mono addon is optional, I believe. You do not have to > > install it. > > My beef (as you call it, it is more an outright RAGE in fact) is > PATENTS. Mono uses Microsoft's own technology that are covered by their > STINKING patents, making any system that has them installed vulnerable > to all kinds of legal hassles if Microsoft decides to get nastier than > they already are. > > And the installation request when running 'make test' does NOT mention > that you have the option of NOT installing the beast! So it does NOT > look like it is OPTIONAL. > > If it IS optional, then there should be a clear way to REMOVE it, and > while I have not looked at the situation long enough to find out how to > remove it, I did not see something as obvious as an 'uninstall-mono' > script. > > The ONLY way I could trust MONO is if it had a GPL 3+ or LGPL 3+ > license that had been court tested and was therefore immune to > Microsoft's legal shenanigans. I do NOT believe any of the other FOSS > and definitely the plain OSS licenses provide the necessary protection. > > And, yes, I am more than a little crazed on this subject. > > > You realize that Microsoft has a legally binding irrevocable agreement to not assert patents on .NET implementations that comply with the standard, right? Mono falls under that. I wouldn't worry about patents when it comes to Mono. We're more likely to have problems on the Java side of things than with Mono.
