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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You completely misinterpreted one of the quotes. If you had only read what came before it you would understand that Mono doesn't use Microsoft's shared source licesnse therefore isn't susceptible to Microsoft in that respect. Mono is pure GPL. This is the entire quote:
Microsoft has a version of .NET available for FreeBSD, Windows and Mac OS X called the Shared Source CLI (Rotor). Microsoft's shared source license may be insufficient for the needs of the community (it explicitly forbids commercial use).
Cleary this changes everything. Shared source has nothing to do with Mono. Mono is simply a C#/CLR standards based implementation with its own libraries. Mono doesn't depends on anything by Microsoft other than standard language features of C# that happened to be created by Microsoft.
So... given the relationship between Microsoft and Novell, and how Novell is the big organization pushing Mono, maybe there IS something to be concerned about. This situation does look suspiciously like Microsoft worming its way into having power in the FOSS world.
Microsoft didn't worm its way in anywhere. Mono was created by Ximian not Microsoft. Novell/Ximian are pushing Mono because of the ease of programming with the Mono environment. There is no conspiracy here despite what all the FUDsters want you to beleive.