Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Sep 2009 13:35 UTC, submitted by Hiev
If you don't like personal, blog-style reporting, you might want to skip this item. A few days ago, during a speech at Software Freedom Day in Boston, Richard Stallman has, at least in my book, crossed a line that I thought he would never cross.
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RE[4]: Stallman is a visionary.
by KenP on Fri 25th Sep 2009 03:02
in reply to "RE[3]: Stallman is a visionary."
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I am not surprised nobody replied to your post refuting your claim. This is exactly what worries me about Mono/CLR/.Net/C# et al. Nobody wants to come clean about the patents behind them and seem 'eager' to trust Microsoft that they won't drag you to court for it.
At least that's not the case with SAMBA.
Its almost like we have an army of traitors within the free software community who are committed to the very cause the free software movement is against!
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I question my earlier statement. On the surface, what I said may appear to be true. But encouraging NEW software development targeting the CLR (or its clone, Mono) leaves Microsoft opportunity to pull the plug out from under us for using "their" technology that they (claim they) have exclusive rights to.
It's one thing to use Mono as a means to transition some C# code to a Free platform. It wouldn't necessarily be bad to have a C# (just as a language, not necessarily the standard libraries) front end to GCC (not necessarily compatible with Windows). But to encourage NEW development for this platform that is dubious in how Free it is makes me uncomfortable.