For some, Redmond's decision to apply its "Community Promise" to C# and CLI came as a great relief. For others, caution was the watchword. Then there were those who were downright suspicious: "We do not respect promises of drug dealers and pedophiles; we should not accept the promise of a habitual offender of anti-competition law to restrain its evil tendencies," said blogger Robert Pogson.
Read more »On Patents, Promises and 'Ugly' Patches
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FSF: FOSS developers "still should not write software that depends on Mono"
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The Free Software Foundation has issued another statement on Mono, C# after the recent Microsoft extension of the terms of their Community Promise to implementations of ECMA 334 and 335. Is is safe to go back in the water now, as so many have been saying? FSF says no, that the "promise is full of loopholes, and it's nowhere near enough to make C# safe."
Read more »Microsoft's Empty Promise
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FSF: Last week, Microsoft extended the terms of their Community Promise to implementations of the ECMA 334 and 335 standards. You might think this means it's safe to write your software in C#. However, this promise is full of loopholes, and it's nowhere near enough to make C# safe.
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Mono: Why is Debian resorting to spin?
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The question of using applications that are dependent on Mono has been a vexatious one for a long time. Nobody in the FOSS community has ever raised an objection to the provision of the packages by any GNU/Linux distribution; it's only the question of making these applications a part of the default set that has resulted in endless arguments.
Read more »My take on the Mono/C# debate
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I’m f*cking tired of hearing random people screaming out why mono is cool or not. These kind of people don’t even know what coding is about, or they just learned Java or C# at university and they’re like “oh shit, I can code!!”. STOP THAT.
Read more »Why free software shouldn't depend on Mono or C#
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by Richard M. Stallman
Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction. It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use.
Bill Gates on C# as “Key Element in Preventing Commodization by Linux”
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Insights from Bill Gates (and colleagues) on platform strategy .
Read more »Open Utter Nonsense..
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Earlier at my college today, one of my mates (a devoted MS fan) came to me saying that he wants me to participate in a project which he claims is open source.
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