Fedora considers Moonlight to be too much of a risk to Fedora
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Software Patent Deals, Mono, and Other Legal Timebombs
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The situation revolving around Eee PC (Xandros derivative) is revisited; Mono still raises concerns.
Read more »Novell’s Moonlight: Crippled and Defective by Design™
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There are some hurdles to jump if you wish to make use of Novell's so-called Silverlight support (Microsoft's excuse, bogus cross platform)
Read more »Novell and Mono: The Kiss of Death to Free Software
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Another very interesting interpretation which shows why Novell and Mono are enemies to Free software.
Read more »Moonlight: Patent Bait Inside Your GNU/Linux Distribution
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An analysis with a top lawyer suggests that Moonlight is to be avoided
Read more »Shining Some Light on Microsoft's Moonlight Covenant
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I noticed a comment thread on Groklaw about Moonlight, with a link to the license terms on Microsoft's website. They call it Covenant to Downstream Recipients of Moonlight - Microsoft & Novell Interoperability Collaboration . A comment by Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb on Dana Blankenhorn's article about Novell being a lead pony for Silverlight started the discussion originally.
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Reader’s Article: Novell, Mono and RAND
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As some people here probably already know, I am no fan of Mono - not for technical reasons (mostly [3]), but simply for political ones. Specifically, I’m talking about so-called Software Patents, and even more importantly, precisely who owns those patents.
Read more »Mono Developers: From .NET Boosting to Java Bashing?
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Here is what seems like new attempt s to justify the use of Mono at Java's expense
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Summary of Mono’s Danger to GNU/Linux and the Free Desktop
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We have received some mail recently from developers who are concerned about issues that are covered here, including OOXML and Mono. One person, for example, was concerned about pressure on KDE to implement support for OOXML (a big no-no). Coming from Debian, a concerned developer spoke about the problems surrounding Mono. Together, we ought to at least try to inform.
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Mark Shuttleworth’s Stance on Mono Inside Ubuntu
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Mark Shuttleworth, whom we have great respect for after maintaining his stern stance against intimidation tactics, has responded to our concerns regarding the existence of Mono in Ubuntu.
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Remove Mono dependency from Ubuntu
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There has been a wide range of discussion on the subject of Mono and its inclusion in Ubuntu by default. Some people believe that Mono may infringe on Microsoft patents while others believe that it is useful to include. Personally, I have no idea about whether Mono does infringe on Microsoft patents, but I see other reasons why Ubuntu should remove it.
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