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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I keep hearing this. But where are the wonderful Mono apps? Where is the surge in application development rate and quality. What I see are a few alarmingly memory-hungry apps that keep getting passed by C/C++ newcomers. Tracker (C) is moving past Beagle. Gnote (C++) zipped past Tomboy, reimplementing it very quickly. I guess that leaves F-Spot and Banshee.
There may be a good argument to be made for prototyping with Mono. But in that case... why not use Python?
If you are going to claim that Mono is ahead of anything else on the Linux front, and at this late date, it seems like you ought to have more "must have" apps to point to.
Since you have changed the backdrop from "running .net apps" to "providing yet another API for OSS", I would say that "chasing tail lights" is not an appropriate description. "Trying to stand out in the crowd" probably is. But in that case, Mono is not doing so well. Except insofar as it has generated so much bad publicity. But I suspect that was not the goal.
Edited 2009-09-24 19:54 UTC