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Microsoft Moonlight in the News
AS WE POINTED out early in the week, Microsoft Moonlight is mostly promoted by the Microsoft crowd [1, 2]. This is predictable and consistent with the evidence. Novell just needs to disseminate its DNA inside GNU/Linux and then come along with Microsoft to claim special ownership of it. But who again is Novell with?
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MonoDevelop Moves to Windows, Gnote Comes to GNU/Linux (as Default)
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New Version of Gnote Released, Already Earns New Users Who Boast Mono Relief
More steps are taken to leave Mono behind and move just GNOME/GTK forward
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The Path to Mono-free GNOME-based Distributions is Foreseeable
Replacements for widespread Mono applications just keep on coming
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Gnote Finds Its Way Into Debian and Ubuntu?
A FAVOURITE project of ours, Gnote, has just achieved another major milestone/release, which constitutes a potential migration away from Novell's troublesome Mono. The new software is already being pushed for inclusion in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) and Debian GNU/Linux too.
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Gnote Supports 6 More Languages, Does Not Support C#
FOR those who are looking to detoxify their GNU/Linux distribution which contains GNOME, Gnote 0.3.0 is finally out.
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Microsoft Wants to Control GNU/Linux, Novell and Xandros Help with This
A little more on Mono, but mostly news about Microsoft's management of UNIX and Linux
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Microsoft-funded Media Player to Become Ubuntu’s Default?
Mono/.NET enthusiasts start pushing Novell's Banshee into the next Ubuntu
AS NOTED two posts ago, Microsoft is - in essence - paying the wages of a lot of Novell developers. What is the return on this Microsoft investment? Microsoft is neither a charity nor a promoter of GNU/Linux.
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Official Novell/Microsoft Web Site (MoreInterop) Calls Moonlight “Microsoft Moonlight”
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From “Microsoft Religion” to “Mono Religion”
LAST YEAR we mentioned Microsoft's "Jihad" talk (the term it uses a lot internally, even Bill Gates). The Microsoft ecosystem is said to be working very closely together and some call it "the Microsoft movement" (a term which is usually used in private conversations). Others even call it a/the "Microsoft religion", so the following new post hit a certain nerve.
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Announcement: Mono-Free Tomboy Replacement (Gnote) Releases Version 0.2.0
The new release of Gnote and its significance. A former Novell engineer has just released a new version of Gnote, whose great value we explained in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. The project is growing quickly because it's mostly a constructive port to Microsoft-independent grounds.
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Tomboy is Afraid of Gnote, Its Mono-free Sibling
Tomboy does not fancy Gnote; Jo Shields keeps promoting Mono in Debian and Ubuntu
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Fitting the kitchen sink onto a CD
On an Ubuntu install CD, every megabyte counts. So here's a little proposal to save a good bunch of them.
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Does The Register Call Novell Opposers ‘Idealists’/'Purists’?
Clarification: If opposition to paying for unspecified software patents per GNU/Linux installation (even in countries that forbid software patents) is an ideal/purity, then The Register still misuses terminology
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