Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Feb 2008 15:08 UTC, submitted by masalinger
A huge 'discussion' took place on the desktop-devel mailing list of the GNOME project about a possible replacement for TomBoy, the Wiki-like note taking application-thing-program-utility written in Mono - it being written in Mono was the prime reason for the whole debate, which started here, and only got considerably nastier later on. "It would seem that lately there are a lot of FUD-spreading trolls crawling out of the woodwork trying to frighten people into thinking that GNOME somehow depends on Mono. Let's take a look at their most widely repeated claims."
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2007-07-25
I believe that people FUD'ing about Mono and Gnome doesn't know what they are talking about. Mono is what it is and its not bound/limited/slaves by Microsoft in any way. Even though its not a complete .NET implementation it is still one of the best frameworks for application development there is, and with the GTK+ bindings the developers can create complete applications without any risk of exposing to to Microsoft patents and such.
When I read FUD like that begin to believe that the reason why people are using Linux is because they hate Microsoft (many people hate those with success. its called jealousy and is as common as it is sickening) rather then the obvious advantages of the technology and concept of free/open source itself. Its like: "my list of why I use Linux: Its not big old evil Microsoft. The end.". Throw in a few dollar signs and a few "omgz! MONOPOLY" and you got yourself a brand new 14 year old Linux fanboy without a clue.
Update: fixed a typo..probably more though..
Edited 2008-02-26 15:43 UTC