Banshee is going to be the default music player for Ubuntu which makes me worry. Banshee is based on the controversial Mono technologies developed by Novell employees. Richard M Stallman has warned against Mono and C# which applies to Banshee as well.
Read more »Banshee May Put Ubuntu, Canonical At Risk
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Coding styles comparison in the Open Source Software world
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A comparison of some elements of coding style for many Open Source projects: Linux, GNU, Qt, Gnome and others, with useful links.
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The Death Of Mono Or How To Annoy Thousands With Four Words
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Mono: Unsafe At Any Speed
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So, that’s the 5 most popular (give-or-take) Mono applications for Linux. Not a single one of which doesn’t have a significant amount of references to non-ECMA namespaces.
Read more »Where, oh where, is the ECMA-compliant Mono source code?
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De Icaza is extremely punctual in announcing these Mono releases. However, there is one release which he hasn't spoken about for more than a year - and which, I think, he would like everyone to forget about.
Read more »Don’t Touch NoTouch
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Miguel de Icaza and his team are promoting proprietary software called NoTouch [sic], which only targets one of the world's most restrictive operating systems
Read more »Embedding ‘Microsoft Tax’ in Linux, Using Mono
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Advice to those wishing to free Linux and remove all Microsoft tax from it (hint: avoid vendors that pay Microsoft for Linux)
Read more »"Saner Defaults" remix of Ubuntu beta released
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An unofficial remix of Ubuntu offers a Mono-free experience for the newcomer with "saner defaults"
Read more »Novell De-emphasises OpenOffice.org and Emphasises Mono Trojan Horses Instead
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Banshee, which Microsoft may be entitled to demand money for after an explicit warning, is being promoted by new employees of Novell, whereas other projects no longer receive much support
Read more »Mono Project Seems to be Dying (Development Virtually Halted)
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Mono development is nearly non-existent over the past month or so
Read more »Mono in GNOME Zeitgeist
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Seif Lotfy inquires about more Mono dependency which makes its way into GNOME's core components
Read more »Microsoft’s ‘Android Tax’ Shows Why Mono Should be Treated as Threat
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Asian companies sell many phones with Linux in them, but Microsoft is extorting all of them
Read more »Novell/Mono Could be Sued by Oracle
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Next target for Oracle could be Novell; Sun's outgoing CEO gets a part-time job alongside a former Noveller
Read more »Groklaw Repeats Warning About Mono as a Patent Threat
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The site better known for its dedication to copyright fights against the Microsoft-funded SCO is turning its attention also to patent fights against the Microsoft-funded Novell/Mono
Read more »Patent Threat Banshee Gets Hooks Into Ubuntu 10.10
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Another word of warning about Mono software which is excluded from the MCP and why Canonical should not mimic Windows and Mac OS X
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