Proposals for mono-basic and monodoc

[Jim Cornette]

Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:
> Em Seg, 2006-11-06 às 22:09 -0500, Jim Cornette escreveu:
>> Justin Conover wrote:
>>> Back in the day, mpackage.org <http://mpackage.org> was setup, how about 
>>> pushing all *mono* stuff to it, and clearing Fedora of any issues that 
>>> might come up?
>>>
>>>
>> I uninstalled mono and friends from my system and do not really care 
>> much for beagle or g-spot or whatever. I'd dump it into something a bit 
>> safer unless there are projects undergoing that are worth the risk, like 
>> maybe a C# version of an mp3 application. :-)
>>
>> Jim
>>
> 
> Are you dumping OpenOffice.org too? Two of its main contributors (Sun
> and Novell) have a similar deal with Microsoft regarding software
> patents.

I barely use them since a simple editor usually is all I really need. I 
do not see any problems having seperate repositories for applications 
that are prone to patent issues.
> 
> My point is, if Fedora trusts that Novell's contributions to GNOME,
> Linux, Xorg, compiz, OpenOffice.org and other projects are not "tainted"
> after this deal, then I see no reason to give a different treatment to
> the Mono project, which is still commited to being free of Microsoft
> patents. Let's not spread FUD against Mono.

I do not care for it myself, probably sine the few apps that I seen were 
not too impressive in my view and making a comparable contribution with 
something other than C# would probably result in a better or quite 
similar in performance application.
I don't need it installed and would not mind if it was removed. I do 
have fear uncertainty and doubt regarding the patent machine promising 
never again to bash the daylights out of Novell again. They should have 
patent abuse crisis centers. The WordPerfect and Quatro dealings should 
have kept the company prepared enough to be wary of such deals.
Like politics, pay off the top corporate execs and the rest of the 
company will suffer with the slashing.

Sorry, I am just an innocent bystander who may just give up on computers 
and go back to paper.

Jim

> 
> Cheers,
> Evandro
> 


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