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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2006-01-10
"Actually, there are three parts to Mono:
1) ECMA Mono which is little more than POSIX for the CLR virtual machine
2) The Gtk+ Bindings for Mono or the Mac Bindings for Mono
3) Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET, ADO.NET, WinForms, etc which is not covered by any standard Microsoft has repeated stated that it owns and will defend.
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Interesting. Can you clarify how the license relates to 1,2,3. I heard Novell got a license agreement from microsoft...what does that apply to? How 'free' as in licensing are the apps produced by mono?