+1 respectibility point to Miguel de Icaza again.
A lot of people have been playing fast and loose with the details of the latest Microsoft Community Promise announcement. Here’s a perfect example from Reddit: “Miguel de Icaza: Microsoft promises to never sue anyone regarding Mono.”
The very first response is from Miguel:
The title of this submission is incorrect.
Microsoft promised not to use over the ECMA parts of Mono. They made no declaration about ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Winforms or other “up the stack” APIs.
That is why my blog post talks about splitting Mono’s source code in two, the ECMA core and the rest.
I believe that both Debian and Ubuntu do fine-grained packaging and might already have this, but the source split will make it simpler for others.
Miguel.
Respect for not taking the easy way out and letting fanbois spread misinformation. I’m going to keep hitting the point that mono advocacy has always bothered me a lot – but if key mono people are going to be out there putting out the truth they deserve credit for that.Especially because it would be much easier to just turn those ignorant fanbois loose.
I would like to see the “database access” question resolved for Banshee and F-Spot. I’m seeing a lot of people saying all those mono apps are safe, and I’m not sure that’s true.
Also, you should stop reading after the first post – because it pretty much turns into a tard fight after that.
#1 by Anonimous on July 9th, 2009
Both Banshee an F-Spot use sqllite for their database needs and both use directly the driver, which pass through the whole ADO.NET machinery.
#2 by Jason on July 9th, 2009
True, but Miguel has already said here and in other places they are aware of this and intend to re-write it. There are some “foot soldiers” out there that weren’t quite so forthcoming, but I’m willing to chalk that up to a combination of excitement and the reluctance to admit there could possibly be any issues at all, lest crtitics run crazy-ass wild with the smallest things.