Fedora meeting Mono Half-Way

[Paul F. Johnson]

Hi,

> You make a good point.  No need for Red Hat to take on the risks when
> Novell already has.  At the moment Fedora can still compete because of
> repositories like nrpms.net on the Mono front, but out-of-the-box SuSE
> is going to overtake Fedora. 

That is possible - anything is possible. However, if FC is going to be
constantly looking over it's shoulder, it's going to get nowhere.

Look at it this way. Debian is much revered around the Linux community,
Mandriva is loved because people can just plug and play and SuSE, after
a long time in the wilderness, are coming about now. The problem is that
if FC had kept an eye one them, we'd have a distro which makes us look
like a cross between Win98 (with a bit more connectivity) with the logic
that surrounds the mess which is known as XP.

What we do have is a community driven project at the very vanguard of
Linux development. If you want to be boring, move to Debian. If you want
to have an insane way of doing things, go to SuSE and if you're
clinically insane, Mandriva is your lot.

> But the value behind those mono apps, such as F-Spot, Beagle, Muine is
> tremendous.  They're what makes the desktop actually competitive with
> MS and Apple.  SuSE is doing well in that regard.

I'm not denying this in the least. I've been on the mono lists for as
long as I can remember and have contributed much to it. But we're
talking at different things here. One potentially jeopardises Linux by
it's incorporation without adequate protection (and I'm not overplaying
that), the other is like any other language - use it or don't.

TTFN

Paul
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