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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2006-12-20
The patent issues surrounding Mono are actually fairly complex, and for this reason I don't think it's right to treat people as stupid, malicious or whatever else just because they're not 100% up to speed on the matter. There are plenty of understandable reasons for a person to be nervous about Mono, even if a more well-informed individual would know that they needn't be.
Microsoft has maintained a very aggressive stance towards desktop Linux for a while now, and lately they've been rattling their patent sabre rather loudly. Now, in this case the patent threat is not valid for most of the Mono project and those apps that use it, but given Microsoft's history, don't you think the paranoia is the least bit justified?
Bashing and flaming people and saying they are just jealous of Microsoft is only going to further alienate them and make the problem worse. Try to empathise with those who are probably just trying to defend their software freedoms, even if they are going about it in the wrong way.