Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 16th Jun 2009 17:11 UTC
Last week we talked about whether or not the Debian project would include Mono in its default GNOME installation. This incited some heavy debate on OSNews, but sadly, the Mono debate also lead to some very nasty blog posts in the Debian community. Time for damage control, Debian project leader Steve McIntyre must've thought.
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RE[4]: Show me the license
by vivainio on Wed 17th Jun 2009 16:12
in reply to "RE[3]: Show me the license"
Member since:2008-12-26
So all of the sudden you wouldn't be able to use C, C++, Vala, Java, or any other programming language?
No, all of sudden I wouldn't be able to use Mono. That would be pretty bad, especially if the vision of Novell about Mono having "become the leading choice for development of Linux applications" turned out to be true.
Just to be clear, I do think it's ok if Debian added Mono to the default Gnome metapackage. This is the original problem we are discussing here. Mono antagonists need to pick their battles, and this isn't it.
RE[5]: Show me the license
by abraxas on Wed 17th Jun 2009 16:50
in reply to "RE[4]: Show me the license"
Member since:2005-07-07
No, all of sudden I wouldn't be able to use Mono. That would be pretty bad, especially if the vision of Novell about Mono having "become the leading choice for development of Linux applications" turned out to be true.
Not true at all. You would be prohibited from distributing Mono but I doubt Microsoft could forcibly stop you from using Mono. Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom hasn't stopped me or anyone else from reading FAT partitions from Linux. In fact prohibiting Linux users from reading FAT partitions would be a much bigger deal than prohibiting people from using Mono because neary every flash device in existance uses FAT and there is no alternative if you want to read camera memory cards or phone memory cards.
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Programming language is a different thing from an application. Even if the whole Linux thing turned out to be completely illegal (unlikely), you could switch over to working on Solaris/whatever in a heartbeat (without eliminating your previous investment). If your programming language turned out to be illegal, you will be in real trouble.
So all of the sudden you wouldn't be able to use C, C++, Vala, Java, or any other programming language? That doesn't make any sense. It's not like Microsoft can force you to uninstall your Mono software before you have an alternative anyway and considering Mono is open source, porting shouldn't be an issue. Also it's wishful thinking if you believe that you could just switch to Solaris without a hitch.