Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Mar 2009 01:04 UTC
Just now, both the server and desktop editions of the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope beta have been released. It comes with a boatload of new features, some of which come courtesy of upstream. A new GNOME release, a new X.org release, a new notification system, they're all in there.
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I completely fail to see any problem with attracting existing C# programmers to the joys of the Qt and KDE apis. Once they learn those apis, they are free to code in other languages like C++, Python or Ruby if they want, and are less reliant on the Microsoft 'eco-system' than they were.
The real issue is Novell's motivation for tying Gnome to Mono in the first place when several of these programs started as Python or C and were CHANGED TO Mono for non-engineering reasons. This the same issue as ESR vs. RMS from earlier this week. The same issue of "Open Source vs. Free Software". ESR and "Open Source" is about happy feelings of competition and fairness, and public "outrage" will keep companies from being "bad". RMS and "Free Software" is about the cold, hard reality of the legal & business landscape... no good deed goes unpunished.
The issue is why are they forcing everybody to use Gnome with Mono... it may be Free Software by itself, but to get enough pieces to be like .Net will never happen. It's quite handy that THEY have a "not to sue" deal with Microsoft, so they can chase cars all day... but what about the rest of us?
It's time to look at KDE again now that QT is LGPL which was the only reason so many distros dumped KDE years ago to try to sell closed-source apps on Gnome without expecting people to pay for QT. KDE 4 is new and powerful and a blank slate waiting for the community to build a "Linux" identity and not just clones of other GUIs.
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2005-07-22
Synapse, a start of the art instant messaging client is a good example of a Qyoto program written in C#:
http://synapse.im/
Of course you are perfectly free not to use it. And you are also free to change, modify and redistribute the code because like Mono, Qyoto and Qt, Synapse is Free Software.
I completely fail to see any problem with attracting existing C# programmers to the joys of the Qt and KDE apis. Once they learn those apis, they are free to code in other languages like C++, Python or Ruby if they want, and are less reliant on the Microsoft 'eco-system' than they were.