http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

King InuYasha ngompa13 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 08:42:11 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Matej Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> wrote:

> Frank Murphy, Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:38:45 +0100:
> > Is there any contingency plans in place, for a worst case scenario if
> > C#, is lost? FesCo?
>
> Sure, there is, but no need to panic ... sky is not falling yet (and
> there are many reasons to believe it never will).
>
> Note for example, that default installation of Fedora 12 probably won't
> require Mono at all (Tomboy was replaced by Gnotes, although the main
> reason was savings of many megabytes instead of legal concerns).
>
> Best,
>
> Matěj
>
> P.S.: Says the one who does yum remove mono-\* after every upgrade of
> Fedora.
>

I don't think you need to really worry about Mono itself. If you really are
worried about Microsoft suing your brains out, just remove mono-web and
mono-winforms. You don't even need those two for most packaged Mono apps on
Linux. Only if you want to run applications compiled for .NET framework on
Visual Studio/SharpDevelop.
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