Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Jul 2007 21:57 UTC
Novell and Ximian "Last month, Novell decided to push the limits of developer empowerment and perform an elaborate experiment in innovation by liberating the company's entire Linux engineering team for one full week of free hacking. During Novell Hack Week, hundreds of skilled developers employed by Novell at various facilities around the world worked together on open-source projects of their choice. Driven by creativity and passion instead of deadlines, instructions, and executive decisions, Novell's best and brightest created impressive new software and added innovative improvements to existing programs."
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RE[4]: Whatever
by shapeshifter on Fri 20th Jul 2007 13:21 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Whatever"
shapeshifter
Member since:
2006-09-19

Taking good ideas is fine.
Taking Trojan Hoarses is bad.
Mono is a Trojan Horse.
Microsoft will never cooperate with Linux.
So Mono is useless.
Better put resources into Java or something that's not tied to Microsoft.
Don't sleep with the enemy.
Plain and simple.

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RE[5]: Whatever
by antik on Fri 20th Jul 2007 18:48 in reply to "RE[4]: Whatever"
antik Member since:
2006-05-19

Taking good ideas is fine.
Taking Trojan Hoarses is bad.
Mono is a Trojan Horse.
Microsoft will never cooperate with Linux.
So Mono is useless.
Better put resources into Java or something that's not tied to Microsoft.
Don't sleep with the enemy.
Plain and simple.


OpenSource==GOOD
Mono==OpenSource

conlcusion: Mono==GOOD

/me ducks

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RE[5]: Whatever
by Almafeta on Fri 20th Jul 2007 19:40 in reply to "RE[4]: Whatever"
Almafeta Member since:
2007-02-22

Microsoft will never cooperate with Linux.


Then why is Microsoft talking about writing Linux kernel code?

The last five years have been a strange time. Now we're dangerously close to Microsoft being just another Linux repackager like Apple, Canonical, Novell, and Red Hat. Heck, they're funding the project I'm working for, and Microsoft's insisting we release the code as open-source.

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RE[6]: Whatever
by Almindor on Fri 20th Jul 2007 19:49 in reply to "RE[5]: Whatever"
Almindor Member since:
2006-01-16

Even if what you say is true, it's just a step in some elaborate plan of their to get more money ;)

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RE[6]: Whatever
by snozzberry on Fri 20th Jul 2007 20:43 in reply to "RE[5]: Whatever"
snozzberry Member since:
2005-11-14

another Linux repackager like Apple

Yes. BSD is a notorious copy of Linux.

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